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" Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves. "
Ted Danson
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" You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. "
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" My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. "
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Day
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" My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. "
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" I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill. "
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" 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
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" If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche. "
Ted Danson
You
Start
Feeling
" 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
" Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends. "
Ted Danson
Best
Think
Opportunity
" If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. "
Ted Danson
Flying
Sky
Airplane
" 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
" '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
" 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 moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers. "
Ted Danson
Water
Walking
Swimming
" My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months. "
Ted Danson
New
Love
Family
" To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. "
Ted Danson
Loved
You
Grow Up
" 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 am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. "
Ted Danson
Happy
Am
Spend
" I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. "
Ted Danson
Pollution
Beach
Swimming
" I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy. "
Ted Danson
Looking
Week
Ocean
" One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever. "
Ted Danson
Me
Myself
Thought
" 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
" Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. "
Ted Danson
Man
Long
Environmental
" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "
Ted Danson
Friend
Someone
Me
" 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
" How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. "
Ted Danson
Question
Life
Important
" 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
" 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
" When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. "
Ted Danson
People
Sense Of Humor
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" 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 don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it. "
Ted Danson
Game
You
Matter