sir patrick

“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.”
—Patrick Stew­art, A Can­did Con­ver­sa­tion (in­ter­view, with Ian McK­ellen), 2013

“Our house was small, and when you grow up with do­mes­tic vi­o­lence in a con­fined space you learn to gauge, very pre­cise­ly, the tem­per­a­ture of sit­u­a­tions. I knew ex­act­ly when the shout­ing was done and a hand was about to be raised – I also knew ex­act­ly when to in­sert a small body be­tween the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn. Cu­ri­ous­ly, I nev­er felt fear for my­self and he nev­er struck me, an odd moral im­po­si­tion that would not al­low him to strike a child. The sit­u­a­tion was bare­ly tol­er­a­ble: I wit­nessed ter­ri­ble things, which I knew were wrong, but there was nowhere to go for help … Vi­o­lence is a choice a man makes and he alone is re­spon­si­ble for it.”
—Patrick Stew­art: the lega­cy of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, 2009

“Quite a few years ago, I did a movie – which un­for­tu­nate­ly was nev­er re­leased – about a char­ac­ter who was in the ear­ly stages of de­men­tia and Alzheimer’s and who knew it was hap­pen­ing and whose mem­o­ry was al­ready start­ing to go … I have twice in the past con­sult­ed the great neu­rol­o­gist Oliv­er Sacks about roles. So I asked the guys, ‘What do you think if we asked Dr. Sacks to come in and just watch a few scenes?’ And he did … And then we sat in a hot cir­cle around the great man and asked him, ‘So how did it seem to you?’ And he said, ‘Well, I know these peo­ple very well. I see them every week in my con­sult­ing room, in my clin­ic, in hos­pi­tal beds. There’s no mys­tery here. This con­fu­sion, this misiden­ti­ty, this delu­sion – all these things are present.’”
—Patrick Stew­art, Smith­son­ian Mag­a­zine, 2014

“Some­one once told me that time was a preda­tor that stalked us all our lives. But I rather be­lieve that time is a com­pan­ion who goes with us on the jour­ney and re­minds us to cher­ish every mo­ment, be­cause they will nev­er come again. What we leave be­hind is not as im­por­tant as how we’ve lived. Af­ter all … we’re only mortal.”
—Patrick Stew­art as Cap­tain Jean-Luc Pi­card, Star Trek Gen­er­a­tions (1994)
 

He had an amaz­ing run and we were tru­ly lucky to be alive at the same time as him, but the world is still a slight­ly dark­er place with­out him. 

Good­bye Sir Patrick.
 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2026 Emi­ly Duchaine. Im­ages: © 1994 Al Hirschfeld; Erik Carter for El Lay Times, 2023.

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