George Takei quotes:

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people."

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young."

Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

A man who layeth with another man must be stoned.

As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

Good grief. If we can't laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call "the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I'm not going anywhere, and I won't be silenced.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

Our democracy is a people's democracy, and it can be as great as people can be, but it is also as fallible as people are.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

People forget that stereotypes aren't bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

The word today is "detained," not "interred." People are being detained with no due process. They don't know what the charges are, why they're being detained. Simply because they have an Arab name or some association, but there are no charges.

The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.

Unfriending me when I didn't even know we were friends? It's like breaking wind when you're home alone. If I can't smell you, knock yourself out.

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

Well, you know, I do think in the larger span of things, I owe it all to Star Trek, because Star Trek has given me this pop icon status if you will, and one of the gifts have been this megaphone I have which amplifies my voice and I can reach people. And I do think the movement for equality for LGBT Americans is in the same context of all of the great American movements, you know, the basic fundamental ideals of this country of justice and equality.

What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad,

You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.