Patrick Stewart

“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 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.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“אני לא חושב שזה אפשרי לחיות בעולם ולא להיות אדם פוליטי.”

“מישהו אמר לי פעם ... כי אני עדיין לא יודע מי אני ואני שוקע בדמויות כל כך שונות בתקווה שאחת מהן תתגלה כאני האמיתי. מחשבה מעניינת, אבל לדעתי היא לא לגמרי נכונה.”

“צריך לזכור שהשחקנים הם אינם הדמויות שהם משחקים – בין אם זה המלט או פרופסור איקס. מדובר בדמויות שאתה עוטה על עצמך, אבל אתה נפרד מהן מחוץ למסך או הבמה, למרבה המזל.”

“אף אחד לא הופך עשיר משייקספיר. אני מעולם לא רציתי להיות שחקן כדי להיות עשיר, אבל תמיד שמחתי לעשות דברים שונים – משהו שיאתגר אותי. בסך הכול, לא הייתי משנה שום דבר בקריירה שלי.”

“התפקידים ששחקן מקבל אינם נקבעים על ידו. מישהו מציע לך תפקיד, ואז אתה מחליט אם להיענות להצעה או לא.”

“בכל מקצוע אנשים חולקים שפה משותפת, וכך גם כשזה נוגע לשחקנים.”

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

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

“I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!”

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

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

“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.”

“William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.”

“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.”