We are experiencing the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime - more people than ever before are fleeing their homes as a result of conflict and crisis.
And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.
I've been picking apples in the autumn since before it was cool to post about it on Instagram.
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.
If you love movies and curious how a part of Hollywood works, read pal Mike Westmore's fascinating book: Makeup Man from Rocky to Star Trek.
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.
My son's sartorial clout is something to be reckoned with.
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
I always knew you were authentic sonshine! The Stewart brand is strong.
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.
Trump’s new Muslim ban is just as discriminatory and bad.
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.
This was so much fun that 10 minutes in I forgot we were on camera...airs tonight in US on BBC America.
As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.
His NSA has resigned and his first piece of policy is ruled unconstitutional. Slippery slope!And soon this charlatan will be on it.
Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
Had the worst sleep of my life last night. But I was sleeping less than 300 yds from where Donald Trump sleeps. Could there be a connection?
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.
Seen from the train: a sign on the edge of a cemetery, Express Freight. That's how I want to go.
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
First time back in continental Europe since Brexit. I was once so proud to be part of the Union. Now embarrassed to be British.
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.
I found this morning's press conference profoundly disturbing.
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'm disappointed that Blunt Talk is cancelled. Walter's voice is silenced. I loved him - but more I loved all my fellow actors and creators.
So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science as a much more exciting and interesting study than they otherwise might have found, entirely as a result of becoming involved with Star Trek.
Kirk Douglas was 100 years old yesterday. Honored to know him when I lived in LA. Watch Ace in the Hole, Detective Story, Lust for Life.
The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
Hi, fellow Guardian readers. Question: when did the main cartoon last make you laugh? Smile? Or even understand what the hell it was about?
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 predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
What I am sipping now: champagne with pamplemousse liqueur.
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 years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
I played Newcastle many times over many years. I love the city, but most of all, I love the people.
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was nowhere else I wanted to go. TV was of no interest. Films were just a fantasy. Yet I was convinced that when we found ourselves in that world of fantasy and sci-fi, it was our classical background and our training that equipped us for that larger-than life-world.
Doing the things I never got a chance to do in Patrick Stewart's life.
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.
Yes! The right to vote is a privilege in all democracies. Please play your part.
Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.
Best of all, I like the good bad guys.
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.
Knowing for certain that "where there is muck, there is brass."
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 weaving shed in the north of England. And it has been this feature of unfairness that has motivated me in all of my political thinking.
Everything by Mozart, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Simon, Randy Newman and Gillian Welch.
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.
Absolutely...stirred, never shaken.
Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?
Thank you, but not before and afterwards, I always have plans.
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 do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
I hope it will be released the day after tomorrow.
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 lived through the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. I have experienced what I never thought I would have experienced, which is a pretty workable peace in Northern Ireland, and I experienced a unified Europe - until the Conservative government got its hands on the idea that in order to appease a few back-benchers they would hold a referendum, what a disastrous idea.
I can say modestly that I make a superb gin martini.
I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
Lots of people who are not theater majors end up homeless. We are all lucky to have a roof over our heads. Good luck.
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.
Pablo Picasso. And I'll be happy to take a painting in payment.
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.
The underlying and not so underlying racism in all of our Western societies.
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.
Well, the funny roles have only come about recently. I now find myself thinking about laughter more than I do about tears.
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.
The time has never been better for beer drinkers than now. New beer parlors open all the time in my small Brooklyn community. I love it.
I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.
Every day. There are aspects of Walter that come out of my own life.
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.
Easy explanation: I am a fully paid up member of Cute Anonymous.
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 live in California. I exercised. I drank less. It was one of the things about California that had a positive impact on me.
My green grocer after he had seen me in a local pantomime. However, a critic wrote that my performance was "barely adequate."
I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
Cleopatra. And I hope Walter's appearance in drag this season of #BluntTalk may give people ideas.
There's no such thing as "just a domestic".
I live in an area where foxes are a part of the wild landscape, and a ban on fox hunting matters to me.
Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
I'm 100% fine, but found myself in St Mary's Paddington A+E late last night and have only praise for UK's NHS. Doctors, nurses, everyone.
I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.
Hands done my all-time favourite Trekkie. Thank you Madame Secretary!
I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
In this day and age why are there still events in the Olympic Games which depend on men and women hurting each other as much as possible?
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. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!
Wensleydale, North Yorkshire - bliss. And a lovely Hotel - The Stone House, Hawes.
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 speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Confess: had an intense week on Pinter's No Man's Land. Came home, reached for remote and there was ST:TNG and...it was goood. Bravo friends.
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 recognition for the need for fairness in society. I'm not saying equality, because that you can never achieve, because equality is based on such complex criteria. But fairness is another issue.
Just finished Misha Glenny's terrific book, Nemesis. Now published UK/US. With Brazil Olympics about to start this is another face of Rio.
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 LOVE HARDWARE STORES.
I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first post-World War II general election, when the Labour Party, to everyone's amazement, ousted the Conservatives. I refused to obey the instructions of a policeman, and as a result, almost got a belt around the ear, because those were the days when policemen could hit children and nobody cared, they thought it was probably good for them.
Refugees are not ‘other’. They are you and me.
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.
Increasingly concerned US media coverage of Thursday's referendum. Anxiety about an 'exit' vote impact on US/UK trade - "Seriously harmful".
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 as much as anything. I didn't ever want the audience to feel that they knew everything.
I came...but everyone had gone to lunch.
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
Does that include when I'm sitting in a van on a Louisiana highway in 94 degrees, waiting for "Action"?
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 narrated the doc, Journey To Space. A tribute to our space pioneers and an exploration of what's next...Mars?
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.
It’s all about status and in Hollywood, there is nothing else. #BluntTalk
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 here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.
Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye...
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.
Yes, the food! Climate, the architecture, the landscape and...the people. I was on guard but my defenses melted.
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.
Four days free I drove north up the West Bank of the river, now returning on the East. Plantations, history, levees, sadness. The best time.
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.
I know, I know that's Po' Boy.
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
Thank you everyone! Sorry if I didn't answer your question. Let me know what you think after you see the film. Bye for now!
It has really taken us by surprise to what extent people have enjoyed it. I get a great deal of satisfaction from using it for societal issues and concerns that I am involved with, but there’s also been this element of playfulness, which has opened up a new avenue of communication, which I am enjoying very much indeed.
Nightmares guaranteed, but it is only a movie.
I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
I did. It comes back when I talk to my brother on the phone, e.g. Atalakinaht - meaning Are you coming out to play?
I’ve always believed that it is not possible to be in the world and not be political.
That's a compliment! And at breakfast this morning when I finished all the marmalade.
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.
Thank you. Sometimes an actor has to dig deep into his own dark corners.
Talent has always been the sexiest thing to me. I have missed out on innumerable, shall I call them, ‘romantic opportunities’ because the other person involved wasn’t very good at what they did.
Macbeth. So complex, challenging and beautiful.
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
Yes, two. 1. A biography of Vincent Van Gogh by Naifeh & Smith 2. The Secret Footballer's Guide To The Modern Game.
The thing about Star Trek is that you're never dead, really. There's always a way of bringing somebody back to life. It would be fun. But I think we've all hung up our space suits for the last time.
When I closed the script for the first time, I was already sold and ready to commit.
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.
You heard it here first: parasols are making a comeback! Sunny day shooting on location for #BluntTalk.
I think that for the moment, at least, we are as good as it gets. And the good, the potential good in us is still to be explored...so that we can become better human beings to ourselves as well as to others. And I sometimes feel we’re only at the threshold of those discoveries.
Just learned that the winner of The Masters, Danny Willett is a Yorkshire man. Eee lad, thas done all reet.
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
The Republican Debate on TV - fascinating. But where was the 'Debate'? I have seen bar room brawls that more fitted the term. How sad.
I’d been given a voice that I didn’t know was available to me, and it was to speak seriously and with a proper level of involvement on issues of inequality and unfairness.
Who can have watched tonight's Republican debate and not have despaired that these guys are the cream, the elite of the Republican Party.
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.
The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men. It’s in our hands to stop violence against women.
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.
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 are—is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.
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 think it was when I began to find out that this actor that I had admired from afar for so long had so many things in common with me—background, interests, passion about Shakespeare, passion about being on stage in front of live audiences.
During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
No, I don’t miss playing him. I loved that character. I admired him—that was one of the nice things about being him.
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
Being cast as Jean-Luc Picard was the most significant thing that ever happened to me because there wasn’t an area of my life that it didn’t touch, mostly for the better.
For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
Is it enough, asks, to have written King Lear and Hamlet, Twelfth Night and the sonnets? The answer is unequivocally clear: how you live is as important as what you do. That’s how it has seemed to me all my life.
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.
Well, I was born in 1940. My father was serving in the army, but when the war was over we went away for a day to the seaside. My father popped into a store, and when he came out, he told me to close my eyes. He put something in my hand that felt so weird, I snatched my hand away. I looked down, and on the sidewalk was this yellowy-pinky furry-looking fruit. It was a peach! It was the most exotic taste I’d ever experienced.
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.
A couple of years ago, I was asked, ‘How would you like to be remembered?' And my answer was ‘That I was very funny.
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 heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.
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.
Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.
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 always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
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 authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.
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