Quotes from William Shatner

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

I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

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.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

My dad died of a stroke.

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.

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

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

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

I have been accused of never saying no.

I'm anxious to make another film.

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.

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

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