William Shatner quotes

William Shatner is a Canadian actor, author, and singer, widely recognized for his role as Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise. His career spans over seven decades and encompasses film, television, music, and literature. He continues to influence popular culture and remains an iconic figure in science fiction. Here are 137 of his quotes:

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right! (William Shatner)
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers. View quote
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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. View quote
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Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. View quote
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I love living in Los Angeles. View quote
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You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture. View quote
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There's too many people in the world. View quote
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My being Jewish does not inform the things I do, necessarily. 'Exodus' is a wonderful piece, no matter what religion you are. 'The Shiva Club,' which is a movie I am attempting to make sometime soon, is about crashing a shiva, if you will. A couple of comics crash a shiva. I could have, I suppose, made it an Irish wake, but the shiva I was more familiar with. View quote
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You, HP, promised me a toxic-free COMPUTER by 2009. Now my friends at Greenpeace tell me that I'll have to wait till 2011. What's up with that? View quote
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Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews. View quote
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I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage. (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. View quote
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My big claim to fame during the three years I was at Stratford was understudying Henry V and going on without any rehearsal - and I tell that story in the show. ... Tyrone Guthrie, a great English director of that time, said to me - I was understudying Chris Plummer - and they said, "Plummer's ill. Can you go on?" And I had never rehearsed the part, never spoken the part out loud. And I went on. View quote
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They said I was this William Shatner character, and I figured I had to be it, pompous, takes himself seriously, hardheaded. So I played it. But I didn't see it. That character doesn't seem like me to me. I know the real William Shatner. View quote
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Science fiction these days is only half a step ahead of science. Astrophysicists and scientists are working in the same way as science fiction writers. They're working things out in their imagination based on the slim scientific facts that they know. Hawking imagines a black hole and then discovers the mathematics that support his theory, and new possibilities come to light. That's the imaginative flair that scientists have to have. For me as a sci-fi writer, spinning those ideas in your mind brings you to the point where you dream in science fiction. Suddenly you think of something in the middle of the night, and it's so vivid you don't need to write it down because you know you'll remember it in the morning. That's what these books, Zero G, reflect: a vivid imagination. View quote
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Star Trek never really caught on with audiences, ran for three seasons, and was canceled. I wish I had taken notes at the time, because you people sure do have a lot of questions about it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose. View quote
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Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment. View quote
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Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine. View quote
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I hate flying, flat out hate its guts. (William Shatner)
I think making a good film shot is joyful. View quote
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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. View quote
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Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it. View quote
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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. View quote
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William Shatner

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Photo: Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Canadian Actor
Born: March 22, 1931
Quotes count: 137
Wikipedia: William Shatner

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