Top 180 William Shatner Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?”

— William Shatner

2. “You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.”

— William Shatner

3. “If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!”

— William Shatner

4. “I’ve got rock ‘n’ roll in my blood.”

— William Shatner

5. “The truth can’t be hidden for long.”

— William Shatner

6. “We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.”

— William Shatner

7. “I think you die the way you live.”

— William Shatner

8. “Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job.”

— William Shatner

9. “I did a movie in Esperanto.”

— William Shatner

10. “So bitcoin is cyber snob currency...”

— William Shatner

11. “Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.”

— William Shatner

12. “Your cadence is your music.”

— William Shatner

13. “We’re all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we’re ashes, we go back to the fire.”

— William Shatner

14. “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

15. “How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It’s simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.”

— William Shatner

16. “Pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They’re the things that we carry with us, they’re the things that make us what we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away, I need my pain!”

— William Shatner

17. “Conquest is easy. Control is not.”

— William Shatner

18. “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

19. “I’m surfing the giant life wave.”

— William Shatner

20. “I never watched ‘Star Trek.’”

— William Shatner

21. “Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.”

— William Shatner

22. “Success should always be just beyond your grasp.”

— William Shatner

23. “The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.”

— William Shatner

24. “I have been accused of never saying no.”

— William Shatner

25. “A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.”

— William Shatner

26. “It’s joy. And you should work on filling all your years with as much joy as possible. Even.”

— William Shatner

27. “What does God need with a starship?”

— William Shatner

28. “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

29. “My dad died of a stroke.”

— William Shatner

30. “Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?”

— William Shatner

31. “I love the musicality of words.”

— William Shatner

32. “If we can clean up our world, I’ll bet you we can achieve warp drive.”

— William Shatner

33. “Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.”

— William Shatner

34. “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

35. “Stop and smell the garlic! That’s all you have to do.”

— William Shatner

36. “A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.”

— William Shatner

37. “I’m so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don’t know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.”

— William Shatner

38. “Divorce is probably as painful as death.”

— William Shatner

39. “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

40. “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

41. “One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.”

— William Shatner

42. “I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.”

— William Shatner

43. “I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.”

— William Shatner

44. “There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.”

— William Shatner

45. “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

46. “I’m looking for the perfect paintball movie.”

— William Shatner

47. “Remember – you can’t beam through a force field. So, don’t try it.”

— William Shatner

48. “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

49. “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

50. “I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.”

— William Shatner