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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

" Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment. "

" I've 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, it's just not worth working with them. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

People

Flying

" I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited. "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me. "

Patrick Stewart

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Bed

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

Patrick Stewart

Truth

Way

" 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. "

" 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

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Quality

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes. "

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

Patrick Stewart

Being

Afraid