John Ratzenberger Quotes

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
John Ratzenberger

Family, Kids, Diabetes

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.
John Ratzenberger

Mind, End, Children

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.
John Ratzenberger

Money, Past, Research

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.
John Ratzenberger

Home, Big, Away

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
John Ratzenberger

Humor, Farce, Slapstick

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
John Ratzenberger

Before, Paid, Residuals

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
John Ratzenberger

Today, America, Around

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
John Ratzenberger

Together, Find, Values

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
John Ratzenberger

Country, Pride, Learn

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
John Ratzenberger

Time, Long, Lost

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
John Ratzenberger

Soldier, Played, Sailor

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
John Ratzenberger

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
John Ratzenberger

Character, Someone, Started

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
John Ratzenberger

School, Thought, Acting

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

Bad, Parents, Try

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
John Ratzenberger

Down, Before, Based

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.
John Ratzenberger

Age, Learned, Son

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
John Ratzenberger

Off, Themselves, Though

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.
John Ratzenberger

Real, United, Decide

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
John Ratzenberger

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.
John Ratzenberger

Ready, Hollywood

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
John Ratzenberger

Humor, Sure, Laughs

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.
John Ratzenberger

Best, Girl, Mind

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.
John Ratzenberger

Country, Around, Everyone

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
John Ratzenberger

Started, Predict

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 6, 1947

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