The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.
I think making a good film shot is joyful.
The good life is one that's artistically made.
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.
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
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.
Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.
All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
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've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
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.
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.
