Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Related Quotes:
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Impact
Recycling
Talking
" I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.' "
Ted Danson
Grateful
Forever
Cheers
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Evolution
Nature
Believe
" I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. "
Ted Danson
Happy
Am
Spend
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Great
Work
Well
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Then
Right
Stupid
" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "
Ted Danson
Friend
Someone
Me
" Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy. "
Ted Danson
Center
Energy
Job
" '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. "
Ted Danson
First
Long
Me
" 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
" 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
" I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh. "
Ted Danson
Think
King
Know
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Competitive
Love
Learn
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Money
Look
Job
" To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. "
Ted Danson
Loved
You
Grow Up
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Organization
Environmental
Together
" 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
" 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 day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. "
Ted Danson
Goes
Day
Embarrassing
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Survive
Always
Animals
" 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. "
Ted Danson
Looking
Week
Ocean
" 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! "
Ted Danson
Powerful
You
Think
" I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life. "
Ted Danson
Life
Feel
Enjoy
" My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. "
Ted Danson
Father
Come
Example
" 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