Quotes from William Shatner

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

A series is filled with compromises.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

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.

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

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.

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

The good life is one that's artistically made.

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

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

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

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

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.

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.

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.

I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by.

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

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.