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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" '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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" 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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" 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. "
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" We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. "
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Evolution
Nature
Believe
" To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. "
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You
Grow Up
" 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
" 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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" I eat less, stretch, and work out. "
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Eat
Work
Stretch
" I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life. "
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Feel
Enjoy
" 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. "
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Victory
Environmental
Responsibility
" 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. "
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Water
Walking
Swimming
" 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
" 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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Better
Me
People
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Father
Watch
Television
" 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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Job
Life
Love
" Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. "
Ted Danson
Humor
People
Serious
" We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work. "
Ted Danson
Will
Together
Everyone
" 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. "
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Human
Balance
Changing
" 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
" California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world. "
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Shark
World
California
" 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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New
Love
Family
" 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 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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Become
Try
Stay
" 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. "
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Look
Easy
Looking
" 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. "
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Doing
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Tell
" How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question. "
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Question
Life
Important
" 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
" 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