I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.

By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

My father told me, "Don't do anything that would bring shame to the family." I was always mindful of that. When I told him I wanted to pursue a career as an actor, my father said, "Look at what you see on television at the movies, is that what you want to be doing? Do you want to make a life out of that?" And I said, "Daddy, I'm going to change it".