John Ratzenberger Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.
-
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
-
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
-
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
-
What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
-
My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.
-
In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
-
I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
-
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
-
Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
-
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
-
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
-
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
-
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
-
If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
-
I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.
-
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
-
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
-
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
-
Isn't it nice not to have to compartmentalize yourself?
-
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
-
'A quotation's only a short neat way of sayin' somethin' everybody knows, like 'It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.'' (Italics in original)
-
This acquaintance with Marianne Werefkin would change my life. I became a friend of hers, of this clever woman gifted with genius.
-
I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
