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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”