Patrick Stewart quotes - page 2

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. (Patrick Stewart)
I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went. View quote
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts. View quote
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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. View quote
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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! View quote
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During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job. (Patrick Stewart)
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment. View quote
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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. View quote
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there. View quote
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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! View quote
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me. View quote
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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. (Patrick Stewart)

Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart - Image
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: English Actor
Born: July 13, 1940
Quotes count: 46