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The best part of this episode is when Frasier tells Patrick Stewart's character Alistair that he's not gay, and Alistair asks him if three weeks on Capri at Bertolucci's villa might change his mind.
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Vinnie Jones and Sir Patrick Stewart recreating Jones’ infamous football photo on the set of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
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We at American Dad! have so much gratitude and love for Patrick Stewart. He said how happy he was to do American Dad! because he was so rarely asked to do comedy, which is insane, as his ability to get the laugh was uncanny. Thank you, Sir, for sharing your joyful spirit, inspiring voice, and willingness to be ridiculous. You turned Avery Bullock, Deputy Director of the CIA, into someone the world loved and couldn't get enough of. We will miss you.
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Patrick Stewart, who died today at 86, became Professor X and Captain Picard. As a boy, he watched his father beat his mother, and heard the doctors who came to help tell her it was her own fault.
In the video below, a woman thanks him for helping her survive her own abuse, and his answer brings the whole room to its feet.
He grew up in a poor mill town in England. His father came home from World War II a different man and turned his violence on Patrick's mother.
Every time the doctors and ambulance men came, they told her she must have provoked him, that it takes two to make an argument.
Decades later, Stewart learned from his father's war records that he had been suffering from severe shell shock that was never treated.
So he spent the rest of his life working for two charities: one for abused women, in his mother's name, and one for traumatized soldiers, in his father's.
He could have spent his life hating his father. Instead, he spent it helping others. Is that the kind of legacy that matters more than fame?
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My favorite performance of Patrick Stewart was in the TNG episode "Tapestry".
There are some days I look back to this episode for a reminder of overcoming difficulties and harsh truths.
I used to beat myself up over bad choices I had made and bad people I associated with. Led me into to conflicts, ruination, and at worst: homelessness.
But those were the things that made me into who I was. A lot of people just give up. They might lose their mind or spirit along the way. But you can't ever give those up -they're all you really have.
That almost sounds like it could be a cope, but in many cases, that's just how it goes. You have to live to know.
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Patrick Stewart was one of my favorite kinds of actors. He could deliver a world class Shakespearean monologue but also if he wanted, the dumbest joke you've ever heard. That why alongside all the classic Xavier speeches, I'm always gonna remember stuff like this.
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A lesser known gem that Patrick Stewart starred in was Jeffrey. One of the first gay-themed films I watched as a teen. Stewart, a straight man, played the role of a gay man in NYC with a profound fear of acquiring AIDS so perfectly.
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RIP Sir Patrick Stewart. Always the first person to come to mind when I think "Shakespearean actor". Whether he was playing someone serious or silly, his performance would always grab my attention
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Sir Patrick Stewart reveals the moment he burst into tears in Jonathan Frakes’ arms during their final Star Trek journey.
Sir Patrick Stewart: “They say what you have to focus on in the sentence ‘The generation’s final journey begins’ is not the word final, but the word begins, because we could be beginning for years and years and years and years.”
“We got to the moment where Jonathan Frakes said to me, ‘Serving with you has been an honor.’ And I burst into tears and fell into his arms.”
“And those are substantial arms to fall into. If you’re going to fall into any arms…”
Conan O’Brien: “So you both started weeping and holding each other?”
“That’s a whole new kind of Star Trek movie. Captain, I love you.”
Sir Patrick Stewart: “Where no man has gone before.”
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Sir Patrick Stewart reveals he called a meeting with the Star Trek cast because they were having too much fun.
Before he became one of television’s most iconic captains, Sir Patrick Stewart approached Star Trek: The Next Generation as if he were performing Shakespeare.
Conan O’Brien: “You said, ‘I’m going to approach this as if it’s Lear or Hamlet.’ That’s the seriousness with which I’m going to take this.”
Sir Patrick Stewart: “I thought it was too internal, too restrained, too solitary, too unconnected with the others. So I resolved that from the start of the second season, I would begin to open him up and let him out.”
That change helped shape Picard over seven seasons, four movies, and eventually Star Trek: Picard.
But Sir Patrick Stewart also took his leadership role behind the scenes seriously. Halfway through the first season, he called a meeting with the cast because he believed being captain meant more than playing the leader of the Enterprise.
Sir Patrick Stewart: “I’m captain of the Enterprise. But because I’d led companies on in the theater, I felt this should be my role here. I’m a leader, not just of Starfleet, but of this band of people who are working these endless days.”
“We have got to make their lives easier, and the problem is we are having too much fun.”