Excerpt from William Shatner's "Up till Now" book

I have no idea what the laws are in quoting someones autobiography that was ghost written by someone else, but this line was so freaking funny I absolutely have to share it.


In the animated film Over the Hedge, I played Ozzie the Opossum, whose primary survival techniques is playing dead, but truly dramatically playing dead. Shatnerian playing dead (think Captain Kirk's wooden acting) Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of DreamWorks, sent the cast, including Bruce Willis and myself, to the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of the film. As we were walking up the red carpet, surrounded by photographers, we were introduced to the French actors who had played our characters in the French version. Wait a second, I wondered, we're the stars of this film, right? I KNEW WE were stars, our names were in big letters on the lobby cards and in the credits. But as this is an animated film our faces weren't on the screen, and now our voices were being replaced by French actors. So we were the stars of a a film in which we didn't even appear. What were we doing there?

This entire book is his amazement at his life. His viewpoints are funny and he has no trouble poking fun at himself. I lusted after Bill when he did "I can't get behind that", then I fell in love with Denny Crane, and now, damnit, I'm just sorry my dad isn't alive for me to tell him how cool Captain Kirk really is, and how I get how much my dad liked him. I understand now why my dad liked him, and I'm sorry it's after my dad died that I found something else I had in common with him.

Dad, I hope you know I get it now.

And I'm enjoying it immensely!