I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

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.

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

I see myself as an actor with a love of music.

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

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.

My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I am private.

My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.

No matter how prosaic something is that you've done and been a part of again and again, there is so much more there that you haven't seen.

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

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.

I'm an optimist.

My dad died of a stroke.

Tabloid stuff just offends.

I can't type. Can't do it.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

There's too many people in the world.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I love living in Los Angeles.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

Death is an absolute marvel.

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

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

I thought I was loved.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

I played comedies and dramas.

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

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

A series is filled with compromises.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.