Top 100 Shatner Quotes
#1. Cal thought: A new player. Terrific. Maybe William Shatner's in here, too. Also Mike Huckabee . . . Kim Kardashian . . . the guy who plays Opie on Sons of Anarchy and the entire cast of The Walking Dead.
Stephen King
#2. The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
William Shatner
#4. I met [Shatner] on the set of Star Trek V, and he was horrible to me. He was cruel, and dismissive, and treated me the way I understand he treats pretty much everyone who tells him how much they loved him as Captain Kirk.
Wil Wheaton
#5. It blew me away that almost two hundred years after Shatner first famously didn't actually say, "Beam me up, Scotty," people still knew Star Trek. Now that's a franchise.
Dennis E. Taylor
#6. William Shatner has found a place in your life. In some respects he's become inescapable!
Anonymous
#7. Donald Trump's hairpiece has reportedly narrowed its list of running partners down to Don King, Kramer, William Shatner, Dolly Parton and Phil Spector, and has no worries about being upstaged.
Michael R. Burch
#8. Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
Jamie Farr
#9. William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart
#11. Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#12. I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
Jason Bateman
#13. Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
Bruce Boxleitner
#14. The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.
Justin Halpern
#15. My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.
Bobby Moynihan
#18. My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.
William Shatner
#19. Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.
William Shatner
#21. My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
William Shatner
#24. I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
William Shatner
#25. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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.
William Shatner
#29. Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.
William Shatner
#31. 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
#32. The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all that's knowable and even the present isn't knowable. The present becomes the past ... so you really don't know anything.
William Shatner
#33. Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.
William Shatner
#34. I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
William Shatner
#36. Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
William Shatner
#37. Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.
William Shatner
#38. Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.
William Shatner
#39. When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
William Shatner
#40. Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!
William Shatner
#41. 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.
William Shatner
#42. We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
William Shatner
#44. 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
#46. I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.
William Shatner
#47. I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
William Shatner
#50. I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.
William Shatner
#51. Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.
William Shatner
#52. I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.
William Shatner
#54. But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
William Shatner
#55. I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.
William Shatner
#56. All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
William Shatner
#57. I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.
William Shatner
#59. 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.
William Shatner
#60. If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
William Shatner
#62. Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
William Shatner
#63. 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
#64. It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.
William Shatner
#65. 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!
William Shatner
#66. I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.
William Shatner
#67. I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock.
William Shatner
#68. There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
William Shatner
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
William Shatner
#72. Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
William Shatner
#73. No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
William Shatner
#74. Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse
William Shatner
#75. I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.
William Shatner
#77. I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
William Shatner
#78. You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?
William Shatner
#80. You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.
William Shatner
#81. I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.
William Shatner
#82. I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.
William Shatner
#84. I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.
William Shatner
#86. 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.
William Shatner
#87. 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
#88. 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.
William Shatner
#90. Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
William Shatner
#92. Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
William Shatner
#93. Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
William Shatner
#94. My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.
William Shatner
#95. 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
#98. The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.
William Shatner
#99. The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.
William Shatner
#100. The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
William Shatner
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