One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. George Takei colleaguefriendgift Change image and share on social
Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, throw people out of their jobs - hundreds of thousands of people - and they say that they're doing it ultimately in the interest of creating jobs. George Takei closecrazycreate share on social
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.' George Takei arnoldbillblood share on social
It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man. George Takei callmannice Change image and share on social
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 americanbombcitizen share on social
You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru - a white man kissing an African-American woman. All the stations in the American South - in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana - refused to air it. And so our ratings plummeted. George Takei africanairalabama share on social
There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. George Takei agefeargreat Change image and share on social
In the United States, we have a large, broad middle that are decent, fair-minded people who are too busy to really think about issues other than their next paycheck. Those are the people that we want to get to in order to change the social climate. And Howard Stern has that audience. So I said, 'Let's boldly go where I've never been before.' George Takei audienceboldlybroad share on social
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 abnormaladaptableamazingly share on social
People are interested not just in Sulu, but George Takei - and he's gay. Life is full of twist and turns. George Takei fullgaygeorge Change image and share on social