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.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

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.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

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.