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

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" When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.' "

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

" I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" We are living in a science fiction world. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" This political climate today reminds me of what my father must have gone through in 1942, when the winds of war and fires of hate were surrounding him. We have a candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, using the same rhetoric that my father must have heard from elected officials. "

" Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process. "

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" I love people. When you're engaged with society and trying to make it a better society, you're an optimist. "

" We can't let the past be forgotten. "

" 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. "

" 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. And I've been able to wed the two passions. "

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" When I was going to gay bars in my 20s and 30s, the older guys there explained to me that the police would occasionally raid these places and march the clients out, load them onto paddy wagons, drive them down to the station, photograph them, fingerprint them and put their names on a list. They were doing nothing wrong, and it was criminalized. "

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