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..

I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life, working in an industrial weavi….

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….

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 generosit….

What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your autho….

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 relati….

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….

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….

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,….

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 bee….

Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes..

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven ye….

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 ce….

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time..

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..

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 ex….

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 don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I d….

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 ….

I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through one World War, I have live….