John Ratzenberger Quotes
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There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
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On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.
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In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
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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.
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You've got to write for your audience.
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Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
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But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
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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.
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I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
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Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
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The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.
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When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
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From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
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You'll be tested every single day.
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So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
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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.
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I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
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To them, the real United States is just flyover country.
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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.
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So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.
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I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
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Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
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Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.