Quotes by 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.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

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.

What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. Thats how we keep on growing.

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.

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.

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

At the core of Star Trek is Gene Roddenberrys vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.

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.

I think Donald Trumps interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesnt really believe in. Traditional marriage is where two people love each other, commit to each other, care for each other over the years. It is a meaningful ceremony, and his interpretation of that is not recognizing what real marriage is.

Id like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.

When Brad and I got married in 2008, it got a lot of attention. And all the attention was over the fact that we were two men, but people were hardly conscious of the fact that we were entering into an interracial marriage. Thats wonderful, because it was only 50 years ago with Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriages were made legal.

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term Japanese internment camp is both grammatically and factually incorrect.

People want to start their day off with a smile or, better yet, a guffaw.

Im proud of my relationship with Star Trek! Star Trek is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.

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.