If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.
— William Shatner
Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
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.
My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
Well-written words are music.
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
Fate gives you the finger and you accept.
I don't know how to deal with being 80.
I did a movie in Esperanto.
I never watched 'Star Trek.'
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.
In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
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.
A series is filled with compromises.
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
I don't read reviews.
I'm surfing the giant life wave.
The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
I've blundered my way through life.
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.
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
I thought I was loved.
Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
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 often conduct interviews in my truck.
Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
I think making a good film shot is joyful.
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.
I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.
It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.
What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.
Death is an absolute marvel.
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
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.'
I'm anxious to make another film.
I played comedies and dramas.
My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
Every day I realized I would not be a star.
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.
If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
