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" I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke, and I remember the thrill I felt when we were introduced to him. To have him shake your hand was an absolutely unforgettable experience. "

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" 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

Succeed

Success

Think

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

" I've known Lisa Lampanelli for quite some time. We did the Shatner roast together. Lisa didn't know Shatner, but she's a popular roaster, so she was invited to do it, and she is fantastic. Actually, despite her public image, she's a very sweet lady and very sensitive. She cries very easily. Most people don't know that. "

" I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote. "

" Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyped, one-dimensional roles. I knew this character was a breakthrough role, certainly for me as an individual actor but also for the image of an Asian character: no accent, a member of the elite leadership team. "

George Takei

Time

Leadership

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

" It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation. "

George Takei

Gay

Lesson

" We are living in a science fiction world. "

" I'm an actor. I love acting and being able to use my love, my passion, to also contribute to making this a better society, a better democracy, and a better country. "

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

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

" In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well. "

" 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. "

" It was an egregious violation of the American Constitution. We were innocent American citizens, and we were imprisoned simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. It shows us just how fragile our Constitution is. "

" It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking. "

George Takei

Hear

Trump

" I love being an actor. "

" I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there. "

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

" My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

My Life

People

" Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I have a sister who is technophobic; she doesn't even use a computer. "