Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there’s Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
Acting is easier – writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.
Fate gives you the finger and you accept.
Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that ‘Star Trek’ became. It’s still almost impossible to imagine.
Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.
Your cadence is your music.
Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There’s nothing there.
I slept for four days when I turned 40.
I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.
What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?
Pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They’re the things that we carry with us, they’re the things that make us what we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away, I need my pain!
I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said “where did you learn to ride a horse?” I said “this is the first time I’ve ever been on a horse” I just knew, I just felt the horse.
I’ve got rock ‘n’ roll in my blood.
A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.
I think you die the way you live.
Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?
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.
We’re all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we’re ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.