Stewart: "Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?"

Stewart: "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."

Stewart: "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."

Stewart: "I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me."

Stewart: "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."

Stewart: "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."

Stewart: "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."

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

Stewart: "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."

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

Stewart: "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."

Stewart: "The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts."

Stewart: "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."

Stewart: "I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair."