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"I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here."

"It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus."

"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."

"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
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"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."

"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek."

"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!"

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

"Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too."

"Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed."

"I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair."

"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."

"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 reflected that."

"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car."
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