Quotes by Ted Danson - Page 2

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!
Ted Danson / Actor
Creatures
Powerful
Beasts
Wild
Continue
Likely
Shark
Toaster
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I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.
Ted Danson / Actor
Burden
Dear
Silent
God Work Prayer
Household Name
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
Ted Danson / Actor
Big Business
Compromise
Hands
Involved
People
Way
Work Business People
Anymore
Beat
Hand
Happen
Otherwise
Strongly
Ways
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It is important to remember that the ocean's resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call to all of us to pay attention to our ocean.
Ted Danson / Actor
Kids
Ocean
Commitment
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
Ted Danson / Actor
Environmental
Insane
Organization
Responsibility
Sole
Victory
Attacks
Claim
Group
Reinvent
Reinvent The Wheel
Wheel
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I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.
Ted Danson / Actor
Real Person
Tempted
Afterwards
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
Ted Danson / Actor
Lifting
Myself World View
Similar
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You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.
Ted Danson / Actor
Clean
Underwear
According
Animals
Carry
Catch
Least
String
Survive
To Survive
Trap
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Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.
Ted Danson / Actor
Opportunity
Best Opportunity I Am
Allowed
Cheers
Funniest
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
Ted Danson / Actor
Actors
Bizarre
Houston
Kissing
London
Phones
Phone
Paying
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I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
Ted Danson / Actor
Reducing
Disasters
Victimized
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I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
Ted Danson / Actor
Behave
Give Me
Jest
Living Room
Terrified
Good Me Father
Approaching
Good Doctor Me
Doctor
Heavens
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Earth
Imagine
Insignificant
Seven
Slipping
Looking
Your Look Feel
Away
Closer
Vast
Small
Seem
Story
Suddenly
Tells
Troubles
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At the time, my 6-year-old kept thinking my character's name was "Sam Alone," which is kind of brilliant. The funny came out of Sam's sad core: the alcoholic, the sex addict, the person who thinks he's God's gift.
Ted Danson / Actor
Character
Sex
Thinking
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'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley.
Ted Danson / Actor
Shelley
Tiny
Great Me Long
Audition
Bar
Big One
Cheers
Great Long Me
Clicked
Final
Instantly
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Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
Ted Danson / Actor
Huge
Impact
Legislation
Recycling
Talking
Years
Years Ago
Basically
Diversified
Drain
Dumping
Help
Talked
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I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
Ted Danson / Actor
Comedian
Favourite
Stanford
Heroes
Dick Van Dyke
Dyke
Van
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You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'
Ted Danson / Actor
Wow
Age Me Better
Certain Age
Younger People
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I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?
Ted Danson / Actor
Cheer
Mean
Mind
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It's not enough to have good thoughts for the world. You must get out there! It is also really important that each person realise their own worth. If you don't think you're good enough, how can you turn around and help save the world?
Ted Danson / Actor
Important
Thinking
World
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To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change how we manage them. Help protect our oceans so the next generation can also enjoy their bounty.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Beautiful
Eye
Water
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We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.
Ted Danson / Actor
Arrogant
Believe
Evolution
Forget
Dominate
Unfortunately
Planet
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ecosystems
Needs
Pieces
Resources
Coordinated
Ecosystem
Gotten
Pick
Piece
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. I mean, we're so different [in the cast], some of us. Miles apart. [But] when I see anyone from those days, I tap into that instant love for them.
Ted Danson / Actor
Jobs
Mean
People
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Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Beach
Simple
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
Ted Danson / Actor
Airplane
Flying
Sky
Sooner Or Later
Sooner
Drops
Flies
Heck
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My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ensemble
Gun
New Projects
Stability
Temperament
Love Family New
Dynamic
Nine-To-Five
Television Show
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I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Boston
Csi
Las Vegas
Office
Participating
Porch
Sitting
Vegas
Looking
Asked
Beautiful Home
Phone
Martha
Near
Vineyard
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I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Arizona
California
Joyous
Southern
Southern California
Summer
Arrive
Hill
Near
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Beach
Conservation
Dedicated
International
Organization
Pollution
Swimming
Twenty Five
Daughters
Became
Interested
Board
Largest
Local
Member
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson / Actor
Disaster
Lear
Anyway
Love King People
Ooh
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I was going through so many changes in my life - separation with my wife, having an affair - that was all very messy and public. It felt like if I really wanted to rock my boat and make changes in my life and who I am and how I am, that would also mean moving on from Cheers.
Ted Danson / Actor
Cheer
Mean
Moving
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
Ted Danson / Actor
Annoying
Borderline
Complaining
Fascinated
Habit
Hypochondriac
Nervous
I Am Wife Me
According
Aches
Complain
Wife I Am Me
Identified
New Ones
Pains
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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
Ted Danson / Actor
Appetite
Drama
Intricate
Lengthy
News
Series
Rise
Button
Click
Writers
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Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Activity
Balance
Barren
Bottom
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Destroyed
Emissions
Human Activity
Instant
Phenomenon
Affect
Coral
Human
Gardens
Global
Habitats
Nets
Plains
Waters
Weighted
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One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
Ted Danson / Actor
Running
Destroyed
First Time
Shallow
Time Myself I Am
Time Myself Me
Attribute
Ear
Grant
Physical
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
Ted Danson / Actor
Shadow
Typecast
Hire
Parts
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It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort. Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I'm proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Beach
Years
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Bottom
Depends
Ecosystems
Fishing
Lines
Mammals
Marine
Miles
Sea
Species
Fish
Commercial
Lethal
Habitats
Harming
Hooks
Include
Indiscriminate
Practices
Ruining
Thousands
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I don't know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37, which is when you realize you're no longer 24. So in walked Woody, who was instantly great, but offstage, it was [all] testosterone. We'll arm-wrestle. I still have, like, tendinitis in my elbow. Woody cleaned everybody's clock in everything. Then we got less physical and went to chess, and he whipped our asses with chess.
Ted Danson / Actor
Arms
Chess
Elbows
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The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.
Ted Danson / Actor
Ocean
Believe
Country
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As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.
Ted Danson / Actor
Children
Mean
School
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