John Ratzenberger Quotes

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

John Ratzenberger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 6, 1947

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When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

Joel Grey

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In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

Amit Bhatia

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I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.

Steve Carell

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To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

Michio Kaku

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What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like diabetes - something you can treat. It doesn't go away, and you're not well in the sense of being over it, but you go on and live your life.

Molly Ivins

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When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.

Michael Landes

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I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.

Jon Gruden

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Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Clyde Edgerton

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I write about things and put things into my albums that I don't talk to people about. I don't hold back or sugarcoat anything.

Brantley Gilbert

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Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

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I feel more like an American citizen now than I ever had, and it's artistically fulfilling.

Phillipa Soo

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If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.

Richard Attenborough

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