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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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 made a promise to myself that I would try to introduce something unexpected in every single episode of the series. It was largely to amuse myself as much as anything. I didn't ever want the audience to feel that they knew everything.
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What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.
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distraught to see what happened to the people and the land I came to adore.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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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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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.