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"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."
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"Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting."
Feelings
"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 not worth working with them!"
Work
"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."
Thought
"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
America
"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."
Life
"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."
Company
"The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me."
Company
"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."
Civilization
"I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well."
Success
"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!"
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything."
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"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
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"Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left."
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."
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