Patrick Stewart Quotes

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

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

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

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.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

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.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

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.

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.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

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

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

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.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

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.

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.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.