George Takei Quotes

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

Behind every citizen lies a graveyard.

A film about my life? But I am not dead.

I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.

I want to be remembered.

Some people say, 'Oh, you look just like the guy from 'Stranger Things.' And I'm like, 'I am the guy.' And they think I'm totally joking.

I would just like to be remembered.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.