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George Takei
 
Date of birth: 30 April 1937
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
Profession:

Actor

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   Early life

George Takei was born in Los Angeles, California. In 1942, the Takei family was sent to Rohwer, an internment camp in Arkansas, then were later transferred to Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. Despite this experience, the family developed a renewed dedication to remain involved in the American democratic process. He and his family returned to Los Angeles at the end of World War II.

In Hollywood during the 1960s, he pursued his ambition .... (More...)
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" American citizens who happened to be of Japanese ancestry were placed in these barbed wire enclosed internment camps simply because Americans couldn't draw that distinction between citizens and the enemy with which we were at war. "

George Takei
" 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
" And my first feature film, which I got while still a student at UCLA, I was seen in a student production by a casting director from Warner Brothers and plunked into this movie, starred Richard Burton, who was an idol of mine. "

George Takei
" And so, I've been enormously lucky and certainly the capper on the string of luck was meeting Gene Roddenberry and to be cast in the role of Sulu, which was a breakthrough role for an Asian American actor. "

George Takei
" Arnold Schwarzenegger is like some of those duplicitous Southern politicians who would say one thing and yet maintain segregation in the South. "

George Takei
" 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
" Burton and I were a perfect fit, because here's this star-struck, stage-struck young actor, full of questions, and here's this legendary figure who loved to talk about himself. "

George Takei
" 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
" During the Korean War, we had a lot of depiction of Asians as villains and evil cutthroat people, and in the 60s we were in a war in Vietnam. "

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

George Takei
" I do think society will eventually change. I mean, it's changed incredibly from the time I was a teenager to today, both in terms of Asian-Americans in the theater and television and films, but also for gays and our self-image, and the ability to move in our society. "

George Takei
" I love the show, and I'm proud of my association with the show, and certainly the character is one that is very much a part of me. "

George Takei
" I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King. "

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. "

George Takei
" I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it. "

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