Quotes by Patrick Stewart

“It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.”

“I wouldnt know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me”

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

“That’s going to be tricky.”

“[ X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner] showed me the first comic book and there was this bald guy in a wheelchair. I could see why she might have been interested in me.”

“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. Its a sense of age -- I dont want to waste my time. I just want everything to be important and not to be trivial.”

“He said Id have to wait to see what they were,”

“Our last words were, Be safe. I love you, ... He said, I will. ”

“My husband died doing what he loved most, flying, ... Im proud of my husband. He was an extraordinary man, husband and soldier.”

“He loved to help people, ... He had a pride in what he did.”

Ive 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, its just not worth working with them.

What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people dont accept your authority then you dont have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captains ready room died it was always a sad moment.