If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

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.

The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

The word today is "detained," not "interred." People are being detained with no due process. They don't know what the charges are, why they're being detained. Simply because they have an Arab name or some association, but there are no charges.

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

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