Quotes from William Shatner

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.

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

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.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

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

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

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

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

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

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.

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.

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

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.

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.

What does God need with a starship?

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

My dad was good with actions.

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

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

I never watched 'Star Trek.'