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 wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

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.

If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.

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

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