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Every day I realized I would not be a star.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

I often conduct interviews in my truck.

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

The truth can't be hidden for long.

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

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.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Don't waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

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.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

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.

I'm coming little animal!.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

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.

My dad was good with actions.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

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.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.

We were basically one and the same, although Jim [Kirk] was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

I have been accused of never saying no.

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.

You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

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.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

You need to be silly to be funny.

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

I don't think in terms of God.

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.

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.

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

I've blundered my way through life.

Tabloid stuff just offends.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs ... the ocean ... and love.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

I love living in Los Angeles.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

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.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

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.

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

There's too many people in the world.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

Oh, for God's sake ... get a life, will you?