American - Actor | April 6, 1947 -
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
John Ratzenberger
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It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
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To them, the real United States is just flyover country.
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The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.
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The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.
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I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
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You've got to write for your audience.
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In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
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Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.
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I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
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In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
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