Nichelle Nichols Quotes

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

I'm not a massive 'Star Trek' fan.

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.

Doing 'Star Trek,' I got to learn about it from the inside out. I got to learn what appealed to them, why sci-fi meant so much to people, why 'Star Trek' meant so much to people.

You can't escape 'Star Trek' influence, especially characters you literally grew up with.

A lot of people remember me from Star Trek. They've all forgotten all the other things I've done. I was so identified with the role.

Without Leonard Nimoy, there would have been no 'Star Trek' phenomenon. And without 'Star Trek'... well, that's a parallel universe most of us probably wouldn't want to visit.

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

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

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

I love science fiction stuff - I'm a bit of a dweeb like that.

'Jurassic' is a legacy and a classic. Steven Spielberg created something pretty spectacular. It's actually really interesting, when I look at it, I ask, 'How has my life changed since being Lex?' And I can literally walk into just about any city in the world and people will know who I am.

I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, 'Star' and 'Wars,' said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

One of the beautiful things about being a part of 'Star Wars' is that it's one of those few things that are community-building in that way. Maybe that way of putting it is a little self-important. But it is something we all have a connection to, something everybody knows about. There aren't that many of those things.

Aren't we all 'Star Trek' fans? That's the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything!

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

'Star Wars' is so accessible that, at any point, you can sort of jump in and become immersed in it.