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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."
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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."

"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."

"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."

"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."

"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"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!"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher."

"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."

"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."
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