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" A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. "
Well
Slapstick
Humor
" 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. "
Mind
End
Day
" Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals. "
Before
Got
Paid
" But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone. "
Today
Me
I Can
" Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it. "
Affects
Diabetes
Family
" Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together. "
Together
Values
World
" From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore. "
I Can
Country
Kids
" Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago. "
Audience
Time
Lost
" I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen. "
Soldier
Sailor
Played
" I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there. "
Friends
Grew
Come
" I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far. "
Acting
Far
Never
" I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research. "
Money
Years
Research
" 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. "
Try
Bad
Media
" 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. "
Way
Age
Childhood
" In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. "
Many
Though
People
" I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with. "
Someone
Cliff
Character
" 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. "
Real
Me
Will
" I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before. "
Before
Based
Down
" On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away. "
Know
Right
Back
" So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation. "
Need
Will
Preparation
" So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically. "
Hollywood
Many
People
" Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs. "
Uncomfortable
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. "
Me
Help
Girl
" 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. "
Country
World
See
" There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started. "
You
Predict
Started
" 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. "
Tell
Reason
Words
" 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. "
You
Need
Energy
" To them, the real United States is just flyover country. "
United States
Real
Just
" 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. "
Two
Got
Sitting
" When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off. "
Clean
Up
Spider
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