Top 118 Quotes by George Takei

About George Takei

These are some quotes by American author George Takei Actor, who was born on April 20, 1937.

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.

George Takei

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

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

George Takei

I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.

I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.

George Takei

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

George Takei

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

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

George Takei

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

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

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.

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

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.

George Takei

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