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" I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. "
Ted Danson
Happy
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Spend
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" 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.' "
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" To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done. "
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" You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. "
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" One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. "
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