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I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.
— William Shatner
Divorce is probably as painful as death.
— William Shatner
I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.
— William Shatner
Conquest is easy. Control is not.
— William Shatner
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
— William Shatner
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
In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.
— William Shatner
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.'
— William Shatner
I often conduct interviews in my truck.
— 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 love living in Los Angeles.
— William Shatner
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
— William Shatner
You need to be silly to be funny.
— William Shatner
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
What does God need with a starship?
— William Shatner
I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
— William Shatner
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs ... the ocean ... and love.
— William Shatner
The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.
— William Shatner
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing ... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
— William Shatner
Tabloid stuff just offends.
— William Shatner
No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.
— William Shatner
If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.
— William Shatner
I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.
— William Shatner
Youth is the ultimate limited resource.
— William Shatner
My name is not 'William Shatner.'
— Chris Pine
There's too many people in the world.
— William Shatner
Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.
— William Shatner
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
The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.
— William Shatner
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
— William Shatner
The truth can't be hidden for long.
— William Shatner
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
Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.
— William Shatner
The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
— William Shatner
A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
— William Shatner
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
— William Shatner
I don't think in terms of God.
— William Shatner
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
— William Shatner
I played comedies and dramas.
— William Shatner
Well-written words are music.
— 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
I love the musicality of words.
— William Shatner
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
— William Shatner
My dad died of a stroke.
— William Shatner
We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.
— William Shatner
There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
— William Shatner
Your cadence is your music.
— William Shatner
I've blundered my way through life.
— William Shatner
I never watched 'Star Trek.'
— William Shatner
I'm surfing the giant life wave.
— William Shatner
It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.
— 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 was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.
— William Shatner
Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
— William Shatner
The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.
— William Shatner
William Shatner just reeks of cool.
— Maggie Lawson
Death is an absolute marvel.
— William Shatner
Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.
— William Shatner
The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.
— William Shatner
All any artist can do is please themselves.
— William Shatner
What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
— 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
I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.
— William Shatner
When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
— William Shatner
I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.
— William Shatner
I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
— William Shatner
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
— William Shatner
It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.
— William Shatner
I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
— William Shatner
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
— William Shatner
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
We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.
— William Shatner
Oh, for God's sake ... get a life, will you?
— William Shatner
Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
— William Shatner
I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.
— William Shatner
You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.
— William Shatner
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
I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
— William Shatner
I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.
— William Shatner
Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse
— William Shatner
I slept for four days when I turned 40.
— William Shatner
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
— William Shatner
Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
— William Shatner
All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
— William Shatner
I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.
— William Shatner
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
My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
— William Shatner
I have been accused of never saying no.
— William Shatner
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
I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
— William Shatner
I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
— William Shatner
You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?
— 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
A series is filled with compromises.
— William Shatner