One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and ….

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, bein….

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 Hollywoo….

I made a promise to myself that I would try to introduce something unexpected in every single episode of the series. It was largely to amuse myself a….

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 a….

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

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..

Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to l….

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment..

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid..

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. ….

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

At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predeterm….

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 ….

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….

We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. N….

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 a….

I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up….

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..

I've been an activist all my life. And always a liberal activist, for the simple reason that it is on the liberal left that you find the true recogni….