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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. "
Ted Danson
People
Work
Age
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" I eat less, stretch, and work out. "
Ted Danson
Eat
Work
Stretch
" 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
" 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
" My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. "
Ted Danson
Job
Life
Love
" You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. "
Ted Danson
Energy
Lot
Lose
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
Watch
News
Now
" 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
" 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.' "
Ted Danson
Better
Me
People
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Remember
Want
Hurt
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Done
Grateful
I Am
" The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. "
Ted Danson
Me
Pressure
Reason
" 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. "
Ted Danson
People
You
Compromise
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Victory
Environmental
Responsibility
" To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. "
Ted Danson
Loved
You
Grow Up
" 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
" The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable. "
Ted Danson
Life
Enjoy Life
Enjoy
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Kiss
Phone
You
" My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine. "
Ted Danson
You
Habit
I Am
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Doing
You
Tell
" My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. "
Ted Danson
Father
Come
Example
" 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. "
Ted Danson
You
View
World
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Want
Book
Writing