George Takei Quotes

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

You should never assume about someone.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

You judge people as you meet them.

The mistake we make with many people is that we assume that we have the model. It is a type of condescension.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Education helps one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.