George Takei Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.”

“You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.”

“And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.”

“As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.”

“Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.”

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

“I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.”

“My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.”