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John Ratzenberger quotes

Ocupation: Actor

Life: b. April 6, 1947

Birthday: April 6

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Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

Topics: Good Life, People, Together

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.

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Topics: Cheer, Real, Book

This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

Topics: Father, Party, Hippie, National Guard, Woodstock

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

Topics: Children, Kids, My Family, Diabetes

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

Topics: America, Gone, Fading, Already Gone

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

Topics: Actors

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

Topics: Laughing, Comedian, Use

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

Topics: Cute, Crush, Girl, Cute Girl, Department

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

Topics: Determination, Preparation, Needs

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

Topics: People, Calling, Actors

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

Topics: Real, People, United States

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

Topics: Projects, Turned Down

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

Topics: People, Hollywood, Ready

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

Topics: Mother, Daughter, Son, Insidious

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

Topics: School, Acting

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola...

Topics: Humor, Men, Thinking, Hobbes, Misunderstood Genius

You've got to write for your audience.

Topics: Writing, Audience

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

Topics: Humor, Farce, Doe, Slapstick

When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

Topics: Spiders, Clubs, Spider Web, Garage

You'll be tested every single day.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

Topics: People, Different, Would Be, Swear Word

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

Topics: Past, Years, Research, Raising Money, Diabetes

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

Topics: Grew Up, Connecticut, Grew

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

Topics: Country, Kids, Pride

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

Topics: Long, Hollywood, Lost

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

Topics: Home, Saws, Bigs, Big Heads

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

Topics: Children, Breathing, Mind

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Topics: Soldier, Sailor, Policemen

What I've learned from the Pixar guys is 'If you work for the love of what you're doing, it's always going to come out right.' Cause if you're working for a paycheck then it's not going to work in the long run; it's not going to feed your heart and soul.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Running, Heart, Long, Heart And Soul

I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go.

source: - Source: www.starwars.com

Topics: Fun, Nice, New Orleans

All over the US, there is a need to teach young people to, really, get them out in the backyard, building treehouses, fixing bicycles, because you become a better, more well-rounded, Renaissance personality if you actually know how to do things with your hands. If you can fix the screen door or replace your old garbage disposal, even change the tire on a car, a lot of people don't even know how to do that. We're literally running out of people who know how to do those things, the essential things like plumbing, carpentry, stone masonry, we're literally running out of them.

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Topics: Running, People, Car, Carpentry

Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

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Topics: Stars, Cheer, Block

One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."

source: - Source: www.starwars.com

Topics: Laughter, Fall, Squirrels, High Points

[ Oval House] director, Peter Oliver, gave you the right to fail. He had a philosophy that came from Winston Churchill that you go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. So Peter gave us a go and that's how Ray [Hassett] and I ended up starting Sal's Meat Market at the Oval House.

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Topics: Philosophy, House, Rays, Oval

I don't know how many days I worked there [on Star Wars]. The thing I do remember was I somehow got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog. It was Jim Henson's space, with this Kermit the Frog sign. I took a photo of it and sent it to my mom with a caption that read, "Look, Mom. I made it. I got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog." I was always fascinated by the film-set infrastructures.

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Topics: Mom, Stars, War, Parking Space, Film Set

Of course, I had a crush on Princess Leia. I really wanted to ask her out, back to my place, or something. But at the time, I was living in a squat on Fitzroy Road in Primrose Hill. It was pretty derelict. So what was I going do? Ask her to come back with me and watch me catch mice?

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Topics: Crush, Princess, Watches, Leia, Derelict

It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the willingness of people to come out to see us five actors drive by in antique cars in the Boston rain. Well, it was the first time I really understood the show's popularity.

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Topics: Stars, War, Rain, Cast Members

I speak to women's groups, Chambers of Commerce, manufacturing organizations. Just did the Mike Huckabee Show. I do about two speaking engagements a month. I still enjoy travelling.

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Topics: Organization, Two, Engagement, Chamber Of Commerce

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

source: - Source: www.starwars.com

Topics: Design, Stuff, Film

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

source: - Source: www.starwars.com

Topics: Drama, School, Get Away

I wrote another wrestling film script. And we finished the shooting [with Lloyd Phillips]. But Henry Winkler came out with his own wrestling film, which did poorly. So the studios passed on ours, and it never got released.

source: - Source: www.starwars.com

Topics: Wrestling, Scripts, Shooting

That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.

source: - Source: www.starwars.com

Topics: Story People, Kiwi, Outlandish

I was a carpenter in Northern Vermont and got this tax refund check that just about covered a one-way airfare to London. So this I saw as a sign from God. So I went over to see Ray [Hussett] for a couple of weeks and ended up staying 10 years. I got work as a stage carpenter at the Oval House in Kennington, South London.

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Topics: Refunds, Signs From God

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