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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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.