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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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" I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water. "

" You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. "

" 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. "

" Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy. "

" 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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" You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid. "

" To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. "

" My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. "

" I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian. "

" I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series. "

" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "

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" I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "