Latest William Shatner Quotes from Interviews

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• The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.

  William Shatner

  Powerful, Hero, Villain

  Source: za.ign.com

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

  William Shatner

  Rest In Peace, Years, People

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2016

• You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

  William Shatner

  Past, Knows

  "William Shatner reflects on 50 years of Star Trek". Interview with James Dyer, www.empireonline.com. July 18, 2016.

• Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

  William Shatner

  Hero, Eagles, Looks

  "William Shatner reflects on 50 years of Star Trek". Interview with James Dyer, www.empireonline.com. July 18, 2016.

• 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

  Years, Gone, Multimedia

  "William Shatner reflects on 50 years of Star Trek". Interview with James Dyer, www.empireonline.com. July 18, 2016.

• The truth can't be hidden for long.

  William Shatner

  Long

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  Father, Writing, Symphony

  Source: therumpus.net

• I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.

  William Shatner

  Mother, Horse, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

  Philosophical, Pieces, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

• I love the musicality of words.

  William Shatner

  Musicality

  Source: therumpus.net

• Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

  William Shatner

  Struggle, Hero, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.

  William Shatner

  Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• Avatar is a watershed movie. We'll always refer to Lawrence of Arabia in the same way. We'll always look at Avatar and say, "That's about as good as it gets." It's an enormous advance, in every way, shape and form, of movie making.

  William Shatner

  Good As It Gets, Arabia, Looks

  Source: collider.com

• I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.

  William Shatner

  Athlete, Silence, Missing

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  College, Men, Keys

  Source: collider.com

• I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Talking, Miracle

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Horse, School, Holiday

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

  William Shatner

  Actors, Rehearsal, Want

  Source: collider.com

• The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all that's knowable and even the present isn't knowable. The present becomes the past... so you really don't know anything.

  William Shatner

  Past, Gone, Knows

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  William Shatner

  Past, Cameras, Taking Pictures

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

  William Shatner

  Fun, Years, Quality

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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

  Interesting, Failing, Something New

  Source: www.esquire.com

• My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.

  William Shatner

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  Past, Thinking, Fire

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  Country, Dog, Loneliness

  Source: www.esquire.com