George Takei is a famous Actor from USA, he is 87 years old and still alive, born April 20, 1937.
Zodiac:
He is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by George.
"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"
"My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career"
"STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive"
"I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year"
"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"
"Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand"
"You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young"
"To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time"
"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"
"I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!"
"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"
"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"
