Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart OBEis an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth13 July 1940
CityMirfield, England
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distraught to see what happened to the people and the land I came to adore.
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I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordinary man. He was an extraordinary father, husband and soldier. He gave 100-percent to everything that he did, his family, his home, his life and his companion soldiers.
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You have to realize that Brian has practiced with us, maybe three times, but he's played 20 shows. But he adds rock 'n' roll attitude.
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Despite the pleasure, interest and quality of life I was getting from television and film, it really was not making me happy. I realized theater was where I simply had to be. It's a sense of age -- I don't want to waste my time. I just want everything to be important and not to be trivial.
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My husband died doing what he loved most, flying, ... I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordinary man, husband and soldier.
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It's always a special attraction for a project if you have someone that you're that fond of working with you. Kyle and I became unlikely good friends and have remained very close over the decades.
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There's always an appeal to working in a place as opposed to just being a tourist. You can get a different perspective on the country and the people when you're there to do a job. The country is magnificent. I'm just overwhelmed with the natural beauty.
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I really, really don't want to hit one of those walls and I really don't want to finish last. This makes me more nervous than anything I've ever done.
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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.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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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!
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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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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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He said I'd have to wait to see what they were,