Quotations and phrases - Patrick Stewart

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.
-- Patrick Stewart

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
-- Patrick Stewart

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

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
-- Patrick Stewart

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.
-- Patrick Stewart

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

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.
-- Patrick Stewart

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.
-- Patrick Stewart

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.
-- Patrick Stewart

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

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.
-- Patrick Stewart

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
-- Patrick Stewart

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.
-- Patrick Stewart

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.
-- Patrick Stewart

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 quality that attracts me.
-- Patrick Stewart

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