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"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."
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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
"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."
Quality
"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."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"One must steer, not talk."
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"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."
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"It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words."
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"I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?"
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"I'll let the racket do the talking."
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"You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
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"Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die."
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