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.
— William Shatner
If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.
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.
All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.
The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
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.
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.
The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'
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.
Divorce is probably as painful as death.
My dad was good with actions.
I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.
I have been accused of never saying no.
You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.
A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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.
I don't think of myself as being tied.
I'm an optimist.
All any artist can do is please themselves.
Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.
I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
I can't type. Can't do it.
There's too many people in the world.
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
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.
I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.
I love living in Los Angeles.
Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.
I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
Nature is perfect.
My dad died of a stroke.
Tabloid stuff just offends.
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'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.
Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
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 sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.
I don't think in terms of God.
Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
