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" California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world. "
Ted Danson
Shark
World
California
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" I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life. "
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Life
Feel
Enjoy
" I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts. "
Ted Danson
Money
Look
Job
" I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him. "
Ted Danson
Become
Try
Stay
" 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley. "
Ted Danson
First
Long
Me
" The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. "
Ted Danson
Best
Slow
Political
" I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention. "
Ted Danson
Struggle
You
Think
" I eat less, stretch, and work out. "
Ted Danson
Eat
Work
Stretch
" Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers. "
Ted Danson
Watch
News
Now
" I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. "
Ted Danson
Actor
" My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years. "
Ted Danson
Growing Up
Life
My Life
" Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story. "
Ted Danson
Look
Easy
Looking
" I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire. "
Ted Danson
Character
Think
Rest
" I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work. "
Ted Danson
Burden
God
Name
" I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you. "
Ted Danson
Vacation
Know
I Am
" You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.' "
Ted Danson
Better
Me
People
" You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. "
Ted Danson
Energy
Lot
Lose
" I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise. "
Ted Danson
People
You
Compromise
" To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life. "
Ted Danson
Life
Law
You
" We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. "
Ted Danson
Victory
Environmental
Responsibility
" My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. "
Ted Danson
Goes
Day
Embarrassing
" My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work. "
Ted Danson
Father
Job
Work
" I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified. "
Ted Danson
Picture
Good
Me
" Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. "
Ted Danson
Human
Balance
Changing
" You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear. "
Ted Danson
Survive
Always
Animals
" I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar. "
Ted Danson
You
View
World
" I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level. "
Ted Danson
Doing
You
Tell
" We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. "
Ted Danson
Organization
Environmental
Together
" I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff. "
Ted Danson
You
Alive
Job
" My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys. "
Ted Danson
Remember
Want
Hurt
" When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them. "
Ted Danson
Competitive
Love
Learn