Patrick Stewart Quotes

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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
• Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.
• 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…
• 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 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…
• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
• I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.'…
• I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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 the…
• All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was…
• At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 for…

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