John Ratzenberger famous quotes

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

#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.
-- John Ratzenberger

#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.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Father #Party #Hippie
Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Children #Kids #My Family
But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
-- John Ratzenberger

#America #Gone #Fading
Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Actors
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
-- John Ratzenberger

#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.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Cute #Crush #Girl
So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Determination #Preparation #Needs
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
-- John Ratzenberger

#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.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Real #People #United States
I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Projects #Turned Down
So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.
-- John Ratzenberger

#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.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Mother #Daughter #Son
I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
-- John Ratzenberger

#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...
-- John Ratzenberger

#Humor #Men #Thinking
You've got to write for your audience.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Writing #Audience
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Humor #Farce #Doe
When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Spiders #Clubs #Spider Web
You'll be tested every single day.
-- John Ratzenberger
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.
-- John Ratzenberger

#People #Different #Would Be
I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Past #Years #Research
I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Grew Up #Connecticut #Grew
From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Country #Kids #Pride
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
-- John Ratzenberger

#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.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Home #Saws #Bigs
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.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Children #Breathing #Mind
I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
-- John Ratzenberger

#Soldier #Sailor #Policemen

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