John Ratzenberger Quotes

You've got to write for your audience.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

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

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

This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock
I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

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.