George Takei Quotes

My acting and activism go hand-in-hand, and they really support one another.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

You can be a responsible member of the community besides enriching from it.

I decided to use my social media to inspire changes in the younger population.

I really consider my goal is that, wherever I am in life, I want to be a social advocate.

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

I want to contribute to sport and the community in a positive way.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

My greatest work comes in the community.

I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in.

I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it's up to us to find solutions today so that we don't keep passing our problems on.

I really do believe that was what I was put on this planet to do: to give to people and, through my performances, show them another world - in the case of '24,' to show them what a politician, black or white, should be. Basically, I wanted to be a service to others.

I really love my job, and I feel like I can make a huge difference for New Yorkers, fighting for them.

Trying to learn from communities and engage with policy makers and community organizers all across the country is really important to me.

Getting in the community, working with the kids, was a way that I felt like I could get out and make a change.

Not all our movies have a social message, but I love the ones that do, and I'd love to do more of them.