George Takei Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

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

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

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

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.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

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

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.

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

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.

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

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

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

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.

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.