Following the Orlando attack, ISIS claimed the attacker as one of its own and called for even more such killings worldwide. – George Takei
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America’s concentration camps. – George Takei
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season. – 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
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. – George Takei
I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor! – 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 have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of macho, dictatorial attitude. Russia has breached their pledge to uphold the Olympic charter. This is a great opportunity for the IOC to say we cannot, given the situation that exists currently, allow the Olympics to take place in Russia. – George Takei
It has a Nazi echo, doesn’t it? The Jews had to wear that Star of David, and Donald Trump is saying all Syrians have to carry an ID card and they can, without warrant, go into any Syrian’s home or a mosque. – George Takei
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. – 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
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. – George Takei
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young. – George Takei
My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I’ve been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans. – George Takei
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. – 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
It’s safe to assume none of us actually wants to see ISIS-inspired terrorists armed with semi-automatic rifles, able to attack at will within our own borders. – George Takei
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. – 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
Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration. – George Takei
It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great American stage of Broadway. In fact, I’ve dedicated much of the latter half of my life to ensuring the story of the internment is known. – 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 discovered that funny animal pictures – memes – would get a lot of likes and shares. – 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
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
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that’s about the extent of it. – George Takei
