“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.” WantFeelsTryingMadeAudiencePromiseSeriesUnexpectedIntroducingEpisodesSomething Unexpected Author:Patrick Stewart
“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.” KnowsWorldFeelsTwoIdeasWarEndsHandsGovernmentOrderStepsProgressWallEuropeLifetimeSouthConservativeWar Of The WorldsIrelandWorld War ISouth AfricaPullingBerlinApartheidSteps ForwardUnifiedAppeaseNorthern IrelandReferendumsBerlin Wall Author:Patrick Stewart
“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.” FeelsShouldAbsurdCanvasSentimentalTransitoryTimber Author:Patrick Stewart
“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.” WorldFeelsIdeasPassionRoomsMouthsWineBottlesBottles Of Wine Author:Patrick Stewart