William Shatner quotes:

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Over the years, I've become barraged by comments from people, such as, 'Beam me up, Scotty!' and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn't want to be mocked.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

My dad died of a stroke.

I see myself as an actor with a love of music.

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.

I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

My dad was good with actions.

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

There's too many people in the world.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

I've blundered my way through life.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

I thought I was loved.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

I don't watch television.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did."

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

So bitcoin is cyber snob currency...

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

There exists nowhere on Earth a soulful place -- everywhere you are, is the soulful place. The entire world is filled with mystical qualities, including your little slice of the world. Paradise and enlightenment are always within your reach. It's joy. And you should work on filling all your years with as much joy as possible.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

Tabloid stuff just offends.

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

I often conduct interviews in my truck.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock.

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.