Patrick Stewart Doesn't Get Twitter, Is Scared Of Getting Hooked On Gaming (VIDEO)

Patrick Stewart Adores His iPhone, Is Scared Of Getting Hooked On Gaming (VIDEO)

Patrick Stewart, also known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films, has a complex relationship with tech.

In an interview with Digital Nation (see video below), Stewart professed his love for his 'beautiful' iPhone, but admits he just doesn't get Twitter, and his a bit scared of gaming.

Stewart emphatically affirmed he doesn't tweet, and never has. He said he just doesn't see the point:

To reduce life to--how many? 140? Just seems to me to be a little bit simplistic. Maybe I like complexity and abstraction too much.

His iPhone is another story. He called it 'my beautiful iPhone' which 'I never have out of my hand and that I do everything with and has become an extension of who I am.'

Stewart said he doesn't travel without his laptop and considers e-mail 'absolutely essential:'

I love emailing because I don't like talking on the telephone and I don't like writing letters.

Stewart confessed with great gusto that he loves the Internet.

The fact I can find out what the weather is like in LA, in 15 seconds, before I fly out of Heathrow is fantastic. [...] Now I can pull up the complete works of Shakespeare. I can't remember a line, I just go online and there it is in front of me. I think it's absolutely sensational.

However steeped in technology the 69-year-old actor is, he does admit one sector of technology he has never taken to is gaming--in part because he fears how hooked he could become.

The only aspect of all of this that I have never taken to, in part because I have an addictive temperament, is gaming. I have a stack of games that I have never taken the covers off because I feel that if I do, I'm finished.

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