Quotes from George Takei

We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.

The wonderful thing about acting is they're always going to need old codgers!

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.

ISIS itself regularly fuels hatred of gay people and violence towards them. It broadcasts gruesome executions of homosexuals thrown blindfolded from rooftops.

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

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!

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

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

I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war. America suddenly was swept up by hysteria.

Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide.

It will be written on my tombstone in very large letters, 'Here lies Hikaru Sulu,' and in very tiny letters, 'aka George Takei.' I don't protest the inevitable.

I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean.

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

When I came out, I was 68, and I was totally prepared for my career to recede when I spoke to the press for the first time. What happened after that blew me away. I started getting more offers. My career blossomed.

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

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.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

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.

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.

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.

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

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.