My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous choice.
I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
Will Shatner, Jonathan Frakes of Star Trek have already put novels out.
My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.
I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
William Shatner just reeks of cool.
I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.
One of my favorite shows when I was a kid was the old 'Star Trek' reruns.
Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.
