List of John Ratzenberger Quotes

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.

I Never Went To Drama School, So That Was More Like I Was Getting Away With It.

I'm Still Really Into Set Design And Construction When I Do Films. I Notice That Stuff.

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.

I Was A Carpenter In Northern Vermont And Got This Tax Refund Check That Just About Covered A One-way Airfare To London. So This I Saw As A Sign From God. So I Went Over To See Ray [hussett] For A Couple Of Weeks And Ended Up Staying 10 Years. I Got Work As A Stage Carpenter At The Oval House In Kennington, South London.

So Many People Aren't Ready For Hollywood - Professionally Or Practically.

I Come From Bridgeport, Connecticut And Have Friends I Grew Up With There.

A Farce, Or Slapstick Humor, Does Well Universally.

When I Go To The Garage To Pick Up My Clubs, I Clean The Spider Webs Off.

You'll Be Tested Every Single Day.

I Have Been Raising Money For The Past 14 Years For Diabetes Research.

I've Turned Down Projects Based On Raunchiness Before.

I'd Never Been To Acting School, So I Never Thought I'd Get This Far.

My Uniform [in Star Wars] Was Cool. Not Much Else I Can Think Of At The Moment. You Know, You Don't Know The Enormity Of These Kinds Of Films Until Well After You're Done.

I Mean, Cheers [from The Star Wars] Was Just A Job While We Were Doing It. All Of Us Were Really Only Hustling To Pay The Rent, Weren't We.

I Speak To Women's Groups, Chambers Of Commerce, Manufacturing Organizations. Just Did The Mike Huckabee Show. I Do About Two Speaking Engagements A Month. I Still Enjoy Travelling.

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.

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.

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."

[at Conventions] They Give Me All The Photos To Sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy The Pig Is Right Up There.

It Was When Boston Invited Us To Do A Parade One November, And I Was The Only [star Wars] Cast Member Skeptical Of The Willingness Of People To Come Out To See Us Five Actors Drive By In Antique Cars In The Boston Rain. Well, It Was The First Time I Really Understood The Show's Popularity.

Really, Improv Is All About Creating For What's Around You, In The Moment, So It Fits In A Way That You Can't See The Seams. It's Like A Great Jazz Combo. I Still Do It.

I Don't Want To Go Back To Sitcoms - I'm A Middle-aged, White Guy - The High School Principal Who's A Buffoon. It's Hard Enough Raising Kids Now A Days, And I Don't Want To Be A Part Of A Show That I'll Be Embarrassed Watching Shows Like That With My Kids And My Mother. A Lot Of Shows Feel They Need To Get That For Humor. You've Have To Have Had A Life Experience; Otherwise, It's Toilet Humor. If You've Had A Job Before Or Experienced Something, You Get It. Some Of These People Haven't And They Look For The Cheap Laugh.

I Don't Know That I Ever Did See Star Wars As Any Different. I Was Certainly Proud That I Did It.