Explore Quotes by George Takei

There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears.

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

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

The Russians are taunting the IOC with the homophobic laws that they pass.

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.'

People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns.

I think Donald Trump's interpretation of marriage is something that he himself doesn't 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.

Social media affords me an opportunity to interact with fans on a daily basis, not just for a few seconds apiece at a science-fiction convention.

I'm George Takei, and I'm straight... up asking you to vote.

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.

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

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.

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.

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.

The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.

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 may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.

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

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

Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

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