Careers are here and they’re gone. No matter how great we think we are, we’re nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we’re ruins in the making.
Is there a God? There is, but we don’t know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.
We’re all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we’re ashes, we go back to the fire.
I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.
My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.
My site has the whole thing – blogs, information, video interviews.
Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn’t need more of that from me.
These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up – all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn’t understand are scoffing at them.
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody’s thinking.
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.
My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.
My dad died of a stroke.
I didn’t want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn’t know what else to do.
I don’t think of myself as being tied.
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 had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.