William Shatner Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.”

“When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.”

“A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.”

“I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.”

“I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.”