John Ratzenberger Quotes

"So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Determination, Actors, Preparation, Will)

"When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off."
- John Ratzenberger

"So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: People, Hollywood)

"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
(Related: People, Americans, states, United, Will)

"Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Humor, Comedians)

"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
(Related: Actor, Cute, Drama, Help, Mind, Project)

"On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Home, Right)

"There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started."
- 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
(Related: People, Projects, Reason, Swearing, Words, Writers)

"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."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Country, Energy)

"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."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Character, Years)

"You'll be tested every single day."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Day)

"You've got to write for your audience."
- John Ratzenberger

"I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Projects)

"To them, the real United States is just flyover country."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Country, states, United)

"But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: America, Today)

"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."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Age, Son, Childhood, Fact, First, Word)

"A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Humor)

"Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Actors)

"Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Family, Kids)

"Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: People, Values, World)

"From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Country, Kids, Pride)

"Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Time, Hollywood)

"In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: People, Actors, professionals)

"I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Friends)

"I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Money, Past, Research, Years)

"I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Character)

"I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Thought, Acting, School)

"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
(Related: Daughters, Influence, Media, Parents, Sons)

"I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen."
- John Ratzenberger

"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
(Related: Children, Day, End, Mind)