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George Takei
American
Actor
About the author
Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Office
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,
American
Actor
#Normality
#Machine
Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#History
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.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#People
#Family
#Country
#Understanding
#Father
#Blood
#Ideals
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Years
#Old
#Memories
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#People
#Will
#Democracy
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Time
#American
STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Vision
#Positive
#Future
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Movies
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#England
#Visit
I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Career
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Thought
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,
American
Actor
#Life
#People
#American
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Martin
Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Time
#War
#Americans
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,
American
Actor
#Being
#First
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.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Fans
#Activism
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.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Country
#Nation
#Order
#Ideals
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Marathon
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
George Takei,
American
Actor
#Time
#Theater