Best 152 quotes of William Shatner on MyQuotes

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.

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

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

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

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

I'm anxious to make another film.

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

I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

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.

I played comedies and dramas.

I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

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

Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

I think you die the way you live.

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

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.

I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

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

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

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?

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.

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

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.

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.

My dad died of a stroke.

My dad was good with actions.

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.

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.

My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.

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

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.