John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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
John Ratzenberger

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
John Ratzenberger

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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
John Ratzenberger

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

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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
John Ratzenberger

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
John Ratzenberger

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

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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
John Ratzenberger

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

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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.

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger

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
John Ratzenberger

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