110+ William Shatner Quotes On Space, Going Into Space And Iconic

William Shatner is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director. He is best known for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the Star Trek franchise. He has also had a successful career spanning over 50 years in film, television, and music. Following is our collection on famous quotes by William Shatner on space, going into space, iconic.

Top 10 William Shatner Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
4. You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.
5. How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
6. We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.
7. Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?
8. I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
9. One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
10. What does God need with a starship?

William Shatner Short Quotes

• Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.
• All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
• Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
• I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
• I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.
• I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
• I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
• Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
• You need to be silly to be funny.
• Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

William Shatner Quotes About Space

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. — William Shatner

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program. — William Shatner

I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me. — William Shatner

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space. — William Shatner

William Shatner Quotes About People

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

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions. — William Shatner

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

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view? — William Shatner

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

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen. — William Shatner

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

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?' — William Shatner

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes. — William Shatner

There's too many people in the world. — William Shatner

William Shatner Quotes About Life

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

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

The good life is one that's artistically made. — 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'm surfing the giant life wave. — William Shatner

I've been in a multimedia extravaganza for 50 years and it's gone by so quickly that it's unimaginable. And it's also a major part of my life that has gone by. — William Shatner

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

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

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day. — William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over. — William Shatner

William Shatner Quotes About Love

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

I see myself as an actor with a love of music. — William Shatner

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

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology. — 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

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past. — William Shatner

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. — 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 love the musicality of words. — William Shatner

William Shatner Quotes About Film

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

I think making a good film shot is joyful. — William Shatner

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

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself. — William Shatner

Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film. — William Shatner

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

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

I'm anxious to make another film. — William Shatner

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck. — William Shatner

William Shatner Quotes About Work

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

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

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

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

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

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them. — William Shatner

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions. — William Shatner

William Shatner Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — William Shatner

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it. — William Shatner

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected. — 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 possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. — William Shatner

When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time. — William Shatner

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked. — William Shatner

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor. — William Shatner

People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music. — William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog. — William Shatner

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

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room. — 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

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

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did. — William Shatner

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

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee? — William Shatner

Divorce is probably as painful as death. — William Shatner

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. — William Shatner

A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse. — William Shatner

It's easy to say no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not leaving the house. — William Shatner

Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain! — William Shatner

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

The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.' — William Shatner

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored. — William Shatner

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

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

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

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

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute! — William Shatner

I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it. — William Shatner

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

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one. — William Shatner

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

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

I don't think in terms of God. — William Shatner

I'm coming little animal!. — William Shatner

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

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian! — William Shatner

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

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

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself. — William Shatner

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

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

Every day I realized I would not be a star. — William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie. — 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. — William Shatner

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder. — William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard. — William Shatner

You have to continuously fail. You fail at something, then you get over it, then you fail some more. And after you fail, there's always something new there. And that something new can be really interesting. — William Shatner

I don't think of myself as being tied. — William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now. — William Shatner

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become. — William Shatner

Conquest is easy. Control is not. — William Shatner

I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition. — William Shatner

I did a movie in Esperanto. — William Shatner

My dad died of a stroke. — William Shatner

Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael. — William Shatner

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

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts. — William Shatner

Life Lessons by William Shatner

1. William Shatner's career has been a testament to the power of hard work and dedication - no matter what obstacles you face, you can still achieve success.
2. His willingness to take risks and try new things has been a major factor in his success, showing that it pays to be open to new ideas and opportunities.
3. His long career has also shown the importance of staying true to yourself and your values, no matter what the industry or the world around you may be saying.