"A few years ago, I was awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call. It was James Duen, Scotty on Star Trek. He'd just seen Braveheart, and needed to talk. I told him Mel Gibson sucked cause that's what I thought he wanted to hear, but really, I thought Gibson was good."
"I remember showing up drunk to rehearsal one day for Star Trek. I walked up to Leonard Nimoy (Spock), and said, 'Hey Spock, live long and prosper.'"
"One time, I took one of the Tribbles home for the weekend. They didn't want it back."
"I said a lot of bad things about Bill Shatner. I've called him arrogant, conceited, a horse's ass. But the truth of the matter is, he's an arrogant, conceited, horse's ass! Sorry, Bill."
"Originally I was the helmsman of the USS Enterprise. In Star Trek VI, I was promoted to the captain of the USS Excelsior. But each and every night I get to be admiral of my bathtub."
"In the first season, the transporter that beamed people on and off the Enterprise was just a shower, and instead of visiting other worlds we would just fly near them, shower, and then leave."
"One time during a Star Trek taping, Captain Kirk said 'Warp speed Mr. Sulu.' I replied, 'Glurp speed Mr. Bulu.' He then angrily repeated 'Warp speed Mr. Sulu!' And I said 'yorp speed sister Gululu!' My idol was Jerry Lewis."
"Once, we gave Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry a big basket of berries that we labeled "Rodenberries". They were actually month-old cherries and he was pretty pissed off."
"My last name is pronounced Takei, it rhymes with 'okay.' I had a high school gym teacher named Mr. Henderson who refused to pronounce it right. He'd always say, "Good morning Mr. 'Tack-eye'" just to make me mad. But that didn't make me mad. Because instead of calling him Mr. Henderson, I'd just say, 'Good morning to you Mr. Ass****!'"
