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… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to live in California. I exercised. I drank less. It was one of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went. — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair. — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too. — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
