Explore Quotes by John Ratzenberger

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.

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

You've got to write for your audience.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

To them, the real United States is just flyover country.

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.

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.

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.

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.

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.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

You'll be tested every single day.

When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

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.

This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock--I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.