Famous Quotes

Quotes by William Shatner

• 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.
• 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.
• Death is an absolute marvel.
• Divorce is probably as painful as death.
• Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
• How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
• I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
• I love technology.
• I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
• I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
• If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
• 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?
• My dad died of a stroke.
• My dad was good with actions.
• 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.
• Nature is perfect.
• 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.
• Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
• 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.
• 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.
• There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
• 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.
• Well-written words are music.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• You need to be silly to be funny.