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There's no such thing as "just a domestic".
Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.
Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.
I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?
I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.
I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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.
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.
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.
When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.
Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
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.
It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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.
I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.
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.
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 only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
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.
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s time, but action that might save someone’s life and someone’s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.
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.
There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.