William Shatner
William Shatner
William "Bill" Shatneris a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth22 March 1931
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
dream pain responsibility
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
captain-kirk doe needs
What does God need with a starship?
grief school home
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
jobs men doe
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.
kids emotional guilt
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
growing-up cities today
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.
stars book quests
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.
thinking ideas use
I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.
los-angeles
I love living in Los Angeles.
country people population
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.
political needs scene
The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
quality stories human-condition
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
mistake people same-mistakes
Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
perfect
I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.