I’ve been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through. – William Shatner
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody’s thinking. – 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. – William Shatner
I’ve been in that angst of loneliness, where you’re really alone in the universe, except for the dog. – William Shatner
I was always working. Maybe you weren’t aware of the movies I was making, or the television I was doing, or the shows I was creating, or the books I was writing; there have been thirty. But I have always been solidly at work, running as fast as I can. – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner
I didn’t realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It’s not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself. – 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. – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity. – William Shatner
I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, ‘Why don’t you just call?’ – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner
No matter how prosaic something is that you’ve done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven’t seen. – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner