George Takei Quotes
Top 86 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Takei
George Takei Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.
They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I've never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.
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.
Cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.
The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.
Would-be terrorists cannot so much as board a plane without a thorough screening, yet we give them nearly unfettered access to very dangerous weapons.
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.
They're the best critics. Workshops are good, and drama teachers are fine, but the best is the audience. And even better if they're paying!
I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed.
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.
As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.
I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
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.
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.
Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.
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.
People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.
If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.
I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
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.
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.
Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide.
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.
I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
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 marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.
'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.
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.
I'm particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard Nimoy's singular creation. He used everything he had.
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.
What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing.
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.'
When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.