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Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades. He is a multiple time Olivier, Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and Saturn Award nominee.

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So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science as a much more exciting and interesting study than they otherwise might have found, entirely as a result of becoming involved with Star Trek.

Becoming, Entirely, Impact, People, Stars, Trek

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.

Backward, Begin, Civilization, Forward, Moving, Tiny

Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.

Acting, Changed, Changing, Impact, Preserve, Years

I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first post-World War II general election, when the Labour Party, to everyone's amazement, ousted the Conservatives. I refused to obey the instructions of a policeman, and as a result, almost got a belt around the ear, because those were the days when policemen could hit children and nobody cared, they thought it was probably good for them.

Amazement, Children, Committed, Labour, Party, War

Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.

Allies, Behavior, Examine, Excuse, Profound, Promise

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.

People, Theatre, Thinking, Together, Working

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.

Audience, Promise, Single, Trying, Unexpected, Want

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.

Concepts, Engage, Science, Star, Stars, Teacher

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.

Actually, Attracts, Character, Nice, Quality

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

Contracts, Ships, Show, Star, Stars

We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!

Done, Entire, Fall, Space

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.

Cells, Insane, Macbeth, Phones, Relief

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

Archetypal, Hair, Man, May, Men

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.

Bridge, Bridges, Chairman, Different, Permission, Two

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.

Head, Ideas, Passion, Passions, Spent, Wine

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Children, Fact, Men, People, Situation

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.

Massachusetts, Place, Stars, Taking, Technology, Years

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

America, Came, Persons, Think, Thinking

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

Domestic, Domestic Violence, Thing, Violence

And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.

Believe, Couple, Darkened, Fright, Jobs, Think

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