Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

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

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

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.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

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.