I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

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.

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

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.

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.

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.