All that was required for it to become law was the autograph of one actor. |
And the 442nd (Regimental Combat) Team emerged from the European theater as the single most decorated outfit to return from Europe. |
I didn't want to talk about being in an internment camp, ... They would ask me, where was I? I would say I was far away...But I never went into details. |
I know that STAR TREK fans might come, but I hope with that first speech, I'll be able to persuade them to forget George Takei and see Martin Dysart. |
I've been enormously lucky [in my career] ... 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....I think Sulu played a very important role in balancing the perception of Asians by the North American public. |
That's right. These are the suitcases that immigrants brought with them, ... Star Trek. |
The large popular normality is that rigid, constrained normality, ... But there's another natural normality. And you come to realize, 'This is who I am. And by gum, I'm not going to let it be a constraint!' |
The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay, ... The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young. |
They are the real ones. We were the future fiction version and they're the ones that are making whatever we did credible. It's their heroism, their commitment, their discipline and their victory that's going to make the Starship Enterprise that much more credible. |
They didn't want 'those people' coming into Hancock Park, low-income people. The Hancock Park people clearly were making their opposition known to Henry Waxman. |
Vierzig Jahre später erkennen wir, dass diese Utensilien auf unserem Schreibtisch daheim und bei der Arbeit wieder. In der Serie trugen wir ein fantastische Gerät, dass wir benutzen, wenn wir mit jemandem sprechen wollten. Dieses Gerät ist heute sehr realistisch und sher nervenraubend |
We are going to make a stronger, better, truer democracy....We will boldly go where America has never gone before. |
We are part of the fabric of America, from U.S. senators to your schoolteacher to your local banker. |
We were taken to Arkansas in trains like this. |
You know, it's not really coming out, ... It's more like a long, long walk through what began as a narrow corridor that starts to widen. |