George Takei

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. ”

We are living in a science fiction world. ”

I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living room floor with my ears affixed to the radio. I loved shows like 'The Phantom,' 'Cisco Kid,' and even 'Happy Theater' when I was younger. ”

There's no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. ”

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive. ”

At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future. ”

I'm particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard Nimoy's singular creation. He used everything he had. ”

When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise. ”

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America. ”

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity. ”