John Ratzenberger Quotes

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

  John Ratzenberger

  Good Life, Conquer The World, People

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• 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.

  John Ratzenberger

  Father, Hippie, Party

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• What I've learned from the Pixar guys is 'If you work for the love of what you're doing, it's always going to come out right.' Cause if you're working for a paycheck then it's not going to work in the long run; it's not going to feed your heart and soul.

  John Ratzenberger

  Running, Heart, Long

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go.

  John Ratzenberger

  Fun, Nice, New Orleans

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• All over the US, there is a need to teach young people to, really, get them out in the backyard, building treehouses, fixing bicycles, because you become a better, more well-rounded, Renaissance personality if you actually know how to do things with your hands. If you can fix the screen door or replace your old garbage disposal, even change the tire on a car, a lot of people don't even know how to do that. We're literally running out of people who know how to do those things, the essential things like plumbing, carpentry, stone masonry, we're literally running out of them.

  John Ratzenberger

  Running, People, Car

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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

  John Ratzenberger

  Past, Years, Research

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• One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."

  John Ratzenberger

  Laughter, Fall, Squirrels

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.

  John Ratzenberger

  Cheer, Real, Book

  Source: www.gq.com

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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.

  John Ratzenberger

  Cute, Crush, Girl

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

  John Ratzenberger

  Actors, Paid

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

  John Ratzenberger

  Determination, Preparation, Needs

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• Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

  John Ratzenberger

  Humor, Men, Thinking

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• [ Oval House] director, Peter Oliver, gave you the right to fail. He had a philosophy that came from Winston Churchill that you go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. So Peter gave us a go and that's how Ray [Hassett] and I ended up starting Sal's Meat Market at the Oval House.

  John Ratzenberger

  Philosophy, House, Rays

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• I don't know how many days I worked there [on Star Wars]. The thing I do remember was I somehow got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog. It was Jim Henson's space, with this Kermit the Frog sign. I took a photo of it and sent it to my mom with a caption that read, "Look, Mom. I made it. I got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog." I was always fascinated by the film-set infrastructures.

  John Ratzenberger

  Mom, Stars, War

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

  John Ratzenberger

  Stars, Cheer, Block

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• You've got to write for your audience.

  John Ratzenberger

  Writing, Audience

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• Of course, I had a crush on Princess Leia. I really wanted to ask her out, back to my place, or something. But at the time, I was living in a squat on Fitzroy Road in Primrose Hill. It was pretty derelict. So what was I going do? Ask her to come back with me and watch me catch mice?

  John Ratzenberger

  Crush, Princess, Watches

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• 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

  People, Different, Would Be

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

  John Ratzenberger

  Humor, Laughing, Comedian

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• I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

  John Ratzenberger

  Drama, School, Get Away

  Source: www.starwars.com

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

  John Ratzenberger

  America, Gone, Fading

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• I remember being fascinated by the graduated sizes and perspective on the sets [of Star Wars]. And how they put shorter people and kids in the uniforms and placed them in the distance to give the idea that these sets had more depth than they really did.

  John Ratzenberger

  Stars, War, Distance

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• I wrote another wrestling film script. And we finished the shooting [with Lloyd Phillips]. But Henry Winkler came out with his own wrestling film, which did poorly. So the studios passed on ours, and it never got released.

  John Ratzenberger

  Wrestling, Scripts, Shooting

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.

  John Ratzenberger

  Giving Up, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.starwars.com

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

  John Ratzenberger

  Grew Up, Connecticut, Grew

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