Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes. — Patrick Stewart

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

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

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

My life is officially an after school special. — Patrick Stewart

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

Wouldn’t it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country? — Patrick Stewart

I like things that are funny–in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life. — Patrick Stewart

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

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

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

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

I wouldn’t know a space–time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me. — Patrick Stewart

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

When I’m meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies’ toilets. It’s the only time I’ve ever acted in the toilets. — Patrick Stewart

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

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

Suck it, virginity pledges, suck it! — Patrick Stewart

Can Charlie come out and play? — Patrick Stewart

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain’s ready room died it was always a sad moment. — Patrick Stewart

There’s no such thing as ‘just a domestic’. — Patrick Stewart

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

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

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