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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.
— George Takei
Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.
— George Takei
They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I've never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.
— George Takei
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
Cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
I love being an actor.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
All happiness is built upon small efforts.
— Hiroyuki Takei
A man who layeth with another man must be stoned.
— George Takei
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
— George Takei
I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.
— George Takei
I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.
— George Takei
You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.
— Hiroyuki Takei
We are living in a science fiction world.
— George Takei
I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
— George Takei
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!
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
— George Takei
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
— George Takei
I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.
— George Takei
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
Dramatic shows are the ones that I am attracted to.
— George Takei
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
— George Takei
Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.
— George Takei
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
— George Takei
I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist.
— George Takei
One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
— George Takei
It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.
— George Takei
More importantly, the tweet was funny. Come on, it's funny.
— George Takei
If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.
— George Takei
I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.
— George Takei
Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.
— George Takei
Turkey Bacon. It's like saying "shoot" instead of "shit." It just doesn't quite carry the moment.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.
— George Takei
Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide.
— George Takei
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
— George Takei
Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.
— George Takei
I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.
— George Takei
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
— George Takei
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.
— George Takei
'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.
— George Takei
I intend to live life, not just exist.
— George Takei
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
— George Takei
I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.
— Hiroyuki Takei
It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
— George Takei
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.'
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
We can't let the past be forgotten.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
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.
— George Takei
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
— George Takei
Cats, on the other hand, are similar to Vulcans - dispassionate, contemplative and pointy-eared.
— George Takei
It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.
— George Takei
When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.
— George Takei
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
— George Takei
As with the douchebags of the world, calling an asshole an asshole sometimes is exactly what needs to happen.
— George Takei
The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
— George Takei
Superior strength is a sword that manifests one's will.
— Hiroyuki Takei