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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

Happy, Roll, North, Yorkshire

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Generation, Next, Been, Significance

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

- Patrick Stewart

My Life, Doing, Still, Replaced

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

- Patrick Stewart

Captain, One Day, Enterprise, Royal

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Been, Became, Listener, Jean

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

Air Conditioning, Been, Conditioning

Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

- Patrick Stewart

My Life, Last, Almost, Bath

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Career, Movie, Role, Compounded

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

- Patrick Stewart

More, Anybody, Had, Teenage Years

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Some, Frank, Very, None

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

Sometimes, I Remember, Part, Conversation

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Civilization, Will, Move, Steadily

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

Hollywood, Role, Having, Sit

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Chair, Had, Joint, Sit

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

- Patrick Stewart

Very, Your, Certainly, Attracts

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Canvas, Very, Which, Sentimental

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Over, Been, Based, Massachusetts

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

- Patrick Stewart

Reason, May, Leading, Leading Man

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

- Patrick Stewart

Been, Very, Couple, Presidential

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Star, Students, Used, Episodes

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.

- Patrick Stewart

Name, Knows, Tom, Episodes

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Some, Introduce, Romance, Episodes

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Couple, Which, Became, Episodes

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

- Patrick Stewart

Good Luck, Right Place, Role, Right Time

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

- Patrick Stewart

Violent, Very, Brought, Being Afraid

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.

- Patrick Stewart

Star, Convention, Half, Season

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.

- Patrick Stewart

My Life, Another, Feels, Wine

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

Some, Like, Certainly, Fully

William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

- Patrick Stewart

Good, Very, Reflected, Personalities

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.

- Patrick Stewart

My Life, Think, Still, Frighten

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