Time & Perspective Quote by William Shatner

“Here’s something pompous” is Shatner’s little pressure valve: a preemptive eye-roll that lets him deliver a big, earnest idea without drowning in it. He knows the pitch sounds like self-help with a beret, so he names the cringe before you can. That move is pure Shatner - a performer who’s spent decades living at the edge of sincerity and camp, where the line between “cosmic insight” and “bit” is deliberately blurry.

The intent is surprisingly practical. “You take your day and artistically create it” reframes life as an act of staging: you’re not just surviving the schedule, you’re directing it. Coming from an actor, that’s not metaphor for metaphor’s sake. It’s a craft note. Acting is built on choices - tempo, emphasis, gesture, attention - and Shatner is suggesting you apply that same deliberateness to the mundane. Not to make every moment “beautiful,” but to make it authored.

The subtext is a rebuttal to passivity. Days default into someone else’s script: obligations, feeds, errands, the soft tyranny of “busy.” “Artistic flavor” is a deliberately modest goal - not a masterpiece, just seasoning. It’s an argument for micro-aesthetics: the way you talk to a stranger, the rhythm of a walk, the decision to treat a routine like a scene with intention.

Context matters: Shatner is a pop-cultural Rorschach test, mocked and beloved for a style that’s both grandiose and self-aware. This line weaponizes that reputation. He makes room for meaning by admitting it might sound ridiculous - and then insisting, anyway, that a little performance can be a form of agency.