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" To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you. "
Ted Danson
Way
You
Real
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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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" 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. "
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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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Think
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" I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. "
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" I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.' "
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Grateful
Forever
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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. "
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Fuel
You
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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. "
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Then
Right
Stupid
" 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
" 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
" 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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Great
Work
Well
" Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy. "
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Energy
Job
" I eat less, stretch, and work out. "
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Eat
Work
Stretch
" The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals. "
Ted Danson
Ocean
Sea
Long
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Father
Job
Work
" 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
" 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
" 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 a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. "
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Happy
Am
Spend
" I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI. "
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People
Work
Age
" 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
" 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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Me
Myself
Thought
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Man
Long
Environmental
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Water
Walking
Swimming
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Growing Up
Life
My Life
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Need
Way
Start
" 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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Sun
Song
Ocean
" 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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