George Takei Quotes

• 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.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science Fiction, Activism

• 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.

  George Takei

  Topics in Achievement, Country

  Tags in Glorious

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Science Fiction

• 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.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Announcement

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theater

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Anglophile

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Movies

• My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Camp, Memories

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Realization, Camp

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Ancestors

• 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.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Internment, Camp

• I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that’s about the extent of it.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Convention, Phenomenon

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Blessed, Career

• Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Asian, American

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Musical, Civil Rights

• 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.

  George Takei

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in People

• 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.

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Normality, Camp

• 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.

  George Takei

  Topics in Country, Family

  Tags in Understanding

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

  George Takei

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Internment

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

  George Takei

  Topics in History

  Tags in Science Fiction

George Takei (20)

Birth:	20th April, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author

About

George Hosato Takei is best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek. He also portrayed the character in six Star Trek feature films and in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. He is a proponent of LGBT rights and active in state and local politics apart from his continued acting career. He has won several awards and accolades in his work on human rights and Japanese  American relations, including his work with the Japanese American National Museum.

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