John Ratzenberger Quotes

• You’ve got to write for your audience.

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• You’ll be tested every single day.

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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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• 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.

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• To them, the real United States is just flyover country.

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• They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.

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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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• There are technologies you couldn’t predict at all when I started.

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

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• So many people aren’t ready for Hollywood – professionally or practically.

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

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

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

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• In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son’s childhood.

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• I’ve turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

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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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John Ratzenberger (32)

Birth:	6th April, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Voice Artist

About

John Dezso Ratzenberger was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. He is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known as Cliff Clavin in the TV show Cheers, for which he earned two Emmy nominations. He earned a BA degree in English from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He moved to London in 1971 and stayed there for 10 years. His role in several films include: The Ritz, Twilight's Last Gleaming, A Bridge Too Far, Superman, Arabian Adventure, The Bitch, The Empire Strikes Back, and What If... His role in several films (only voice) include: Gandhi, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Planes, The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory, and Coco. His role in television include: The Good Soldier (TV film), Combat Academy (TV film), Timestalkers (TV film), Made in America (documentary, host), and Legit (TV series).

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