Top 45 Quotes by Patrick Stewart

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

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.

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.

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

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'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.