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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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 not worth working with them!

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain’s chair of the Enterprise.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

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• We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.

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• There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.

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• Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

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

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Patrick Stewart (46)

Birth:	13th July, 1940
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Patrick Stewart is an English film, television, and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career on stage and screen. He is most widely known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its successor films, as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, his prolific stage roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and his many voice acting roles.

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