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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I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
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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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From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
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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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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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I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
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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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Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
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I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
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So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
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You'll be tested every single day.
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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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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.
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Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
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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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To them, the real United States is just flyover country.
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So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.