Ted Danson Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.”

“To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.”

“Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.”

“When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.”

“You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.”

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.”

“I don't like confrontational politics. But I like to be able to look at something like the oceans and go: 'Here's what the science is'. I don't feel like I am trying to say that I am right and you are wrong, I am just trying to say this does not make sense. We are about to waste this incredible natural resource if we keep doing what we are doing.”