Ted Danson
We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.Collection: Work
To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.Collection: Funny
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.Collection: Environmental
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.Collection: Environmental
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.Collection: Environmental
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.'Collection: Age
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.Collection: Humor
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.Collection: Environmental
When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.Collection: Humor
I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
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!
I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
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.
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.
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.
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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.
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.
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.
The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
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.
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.
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.
You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever.
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.
The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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.
If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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.
A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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.
'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.
I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.
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.
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.
Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
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 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.
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.
I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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.