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The good life is one that's artistically made.

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

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

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

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.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

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.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

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.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

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

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

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.

A series is filled with compromises.

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

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

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

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

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

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.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

I often conduct interviews in my truck.

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

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

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

I never watched 'Star Trek.'

I played comedies and dramas.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I thought I was loved.

I don't know how to deal with being 80.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

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

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

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.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I've blundered my way through life.

Well-written words are music.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

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

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

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'

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

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

I'm surfing the giant life wave.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

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

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

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

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

I love living in Los Angeles.

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