An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects of my life, but most importantly of my career, because it has changed the public's perception of who Patrick Stewart is.

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

William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

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

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.