Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.