All in all, Kirk’s character is something I am very proud of.
Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.
The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
The truth can’t be hidden for long.
There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
I did a movie in Esperanto.
You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?
Conquest is easy. Control is not.
I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
If there’s anything I’m not pompous about, it’s myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.
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.
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.
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