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" I eat less, stretch, and work out. "
Ted Danson
Eat
Work
Stretch
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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Try
Stay
" 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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Competitive
Love
Learn
" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "
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Friend
Someone
Me
" Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy. "
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Center
Energy
Job
" Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. "
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Impact
Recycling
Talking
" 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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Kiss
Phone
You
" Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get. "
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Help
Real
Sharks
" 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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Money
Look
Job
" We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet. "
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Need
Way
Start
" I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. "
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Actor
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Fuel
You
Oil
" 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. "
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Watch
News
Now
" 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. "
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People
You
Compromise
" To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you. "
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Way
You
Real
" 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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Done
Grateful
I Am
" 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. "
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Man
Long
Environmental
" Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! "
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Powerful
You
Think
" The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. "
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Best
Slow
Political
" You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. "
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Energy
Lot
Lose
" My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. "
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Father
Come
Example
" Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves. "
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List
People
Thought
" 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. "
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Remember
Want
Hurt
" 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. "
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Growing Up
Life
My Life
" 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. "
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Struggle
You
Think