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. – William Shatner
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else. – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner
Over the years, I’ve become barraged by comments from people, such as, ‘Beam me up, Scotty!’ and I became defensive. I felt they were derisive and engendered an attitude. I am grateful for the success, but didn’t want to be mocked. – William Shatner
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that ‘Star Trek’ became. It’s still almost impossible to imagine. – William Shatner
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was. – William Shatner
I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you. – William Shatner
Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I’m content. – 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. – William Shatner
A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds. – William Shatner
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again. – William Shatner
I frequently dream of being on these horses’ backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one. – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene – but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. – William Shatner
When you’ve done the technical part, you’re then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You’re then into the mystery of the thing you’re doing. – William Shatner
With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don’t want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts. – William Shatner
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. – William Shatner
Acting is easier – writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. – William Shatner
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad. – William Shatner