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John Ratzenberger [1947-0] American
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Actor


John Dezso Ratzenberger is an American actor, voice actor and entrepreneur. He is best known as Cliff Clavin in Cheers. He is also known for his extensive vocal work in Pixar Animation Studios' films, notably Hamm in the Toy Story franchise and Mack in the Cars franchise.

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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.
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I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
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A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. Humor
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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.
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You'll be tested every single day.
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Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
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Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
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I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.
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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.
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They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country.
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To them, the real United States is just flyover country.
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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.
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I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
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Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
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There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
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When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
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From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
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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.
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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.
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I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
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You've got to write for your audience.
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In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
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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.
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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.
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I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
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Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs. Humor
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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.
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Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
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So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.
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So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
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On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.
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