GEORGE TAKEI

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

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.

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.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

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.

My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

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.

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.

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

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

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.

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

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

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

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

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.

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.

The central pillar of our justice system is due process. You have got to be charged with a crime. Then you can challenge those charges in a court of law with a trial.

It's important for all Americans to know how vulnerable our Constitution is.

It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

I had convinced my father to let me pursue this career, and I passionately wanted it. And here was this conflict in me, and I hadn't shared it with my father. And it was excruciating to always have your guard up. Particularly because, being an actor, you're public and visible. I could be seen coming out of a gay bar. Who could have seen me?

I have a sister who is technophobic; she doesn't even use a computer.