Top 45 Quotes by Patrick Stewart

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

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.

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.

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.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

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.

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.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

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.

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.