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

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.

Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

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

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

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

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

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

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

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

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

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

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

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

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

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

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

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

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

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

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

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

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

We were basically one and the same, although Jim Kirk was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

I have had mystical experiences with horses. I felt they were communicating with me in horse communication.

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

I frequently dream of being on these horses' backs and running across a field. And the horse and I are one.

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

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 love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

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.

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

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.'

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.

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

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