He Can Spare A Catchphrase. He's Got Dozens.

[bloodyrosemccoy]

My new catchphrase is going to be "I wanna CRY, that's so meaningful."

Shatner cracks me up because everything he does is all about HIM, no matter how much he tries to pretend it's not.* And yet despite his unbelievable ego, you just can't hate him. It's just who he is, like how lions are carnivorous or hippos are territorial. Shatner is egomaniacal and self-centered, and you can take it or leave it.

(I can't get over how WEIRD it must be to be a Star Trek character. I can see why they might be fascinated with it, too.)


*Favorite part in The Captains, other than the moment where he photobombs some con-goers: when he and Patrick Stewart are talking, and Shatner's spent an entire movie waffling on in some navel-gazing way about What It Means To Be Captain Kirk (who was totally the first captain) and his legacy and whatnot, and Patrick Stewart says in essence "I know if I died today I'd be remembered chiefly as Captain Picard. And that's totally fine."

Comments

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you hear a few horror stories about his ego, mostly from people he worked with on TOS, but other than that, pretty much everything I've heard about him seems to indicate that he's a great guy, even with the massive self-centered egomania. I'd like to get to meet him sometime, I think.

[daiq.livejournal.com]

This and The Captains, both fabulous!