We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.
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.
Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.
I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there.
But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
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.
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
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.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
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.
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.
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.
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.
Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
I was blessed with my career. I passionately love acting. And it's given me a good livelihood.
