Quotes from William Shatner

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.

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?

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

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

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

My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

I love the musicality of words.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

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.

I often conduct interviews in my truck.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

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

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

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.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

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

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

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