Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart OBEis an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth13 July 1940
CityMirfield, England
Patrick Stewart quotes about
actors television may
I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.
promise trying want
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.
giving levels satisfaction
Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?
elephants sheep yorkshire
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!
nice character quality
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.
jobs years oil
During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
years theatre littles
For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
morning years six-months
This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s time, but action that might save someone’s life and someone’s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.
strong careers perception
An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects of my life, but most importantly of my career, because it has changed the public's perception of who Patrick Stewart is,
civilization arrogance may
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.
domestic-violence violence
There's no such thing as "just a domestic".
kings irritation years
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.
talking
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.
falling-in-love children hero
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.