Patrick Stewart Quotes

• 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 seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I’m talking about. But I’m still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

  Patrick Stewart

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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

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• Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It’s one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn’t want our make-believe to be exposed.

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  Topics in Encouragement

  Tags in People, Believe, Film

• For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

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  Tags in Time

• Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend – someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ideas

• 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.

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  Tags in Better, Think

• I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

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  Tags in Pleasure, Audience

• I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was – because I had graphic instances of it – handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, ‘I don’t want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie’ – and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

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  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Point, Point Of View

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

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  Tags in Reason, Hair

• 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.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Experiment

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling

• 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!

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Spend

• 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 between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationship, Never

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Permission

• I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization

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

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Adult, Never

• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Grew

• Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Believable

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interested, Hollywood

• 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.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in People, Worth

Patrick Stewart (46)

Birth:	13th July, 1940
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor

About

Patrick Stewart is an English film, television, and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career on stage and screen. He is most widely known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its successor films, as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series, his prolific stage roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and his many voice acting roles.

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