George Takei Quotes

American - Actor Born: April 20, 1937

I intend to live life, not just exist. - George Takei

I intend to live life, not just exist. George Takei

Exist, Intend, Just

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

Trek, Star, Lifelong

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

Magic, Bus, City

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

Gift, Woke, Part

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. George Takei

Here, United States

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

Some, Away, Father

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. George Takei

Japan, Old, Harbor

Gene Roddenberry continually reminded us that the Star Trek Enterprise was a metaphor for starship Earth. And the strength in this starship came from its diversity, coming together and working in concert as a team. That is the strength of our countries, Canada and the United States. We are nations of diversity. George Takei

Strength, United, Enterprise

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

Need, Theater, Block

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, Behind, More People

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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

Through, Which, Grandmother

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. George Takei

Idea, Pursuit, Every Man

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

My Life, Been, Fact

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

Engaged, Been, Doing

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

Constitution, Innocent

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

Allow, Olympic, We Cannot

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

Think, Been, I Think

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. George Takei

Became, Normal, I Remember

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

Audience, Social, More

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

Career, Love, Given

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

Giggle, Reliability, Greet

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. George Takei

Best Way, Issue, More

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms. George Takei

Trek, Starship, Diversity

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. George Takei

Inevitable, Here, Very

Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai Stevenson, and he took me to the Stevenson for President headquarters, and he volunteered me. That was my introduction to electoral politics, which was exciting and fun and thrilling and very theatrical. George Takei

Volunteered, Politics, Very

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. George Takei

Doing, Clients, Explained

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