Top 40 Ted Danson Quotes

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 used to have a little silent prayer: ‘Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.’ That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.

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.

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.

To grow up knowing you’re loved is astounding. It’s a huge gift to a child.

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

California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

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.

My lessons didn’t come at my father‘s knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

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.

‘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 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.

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

My father went to work every day, and it’s my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won‘t be so good, but I have to go to work.

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’m almost tempted, when I’m playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.

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.

I eat less, stretch, and work out.

I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.

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.

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 am forever grateful for ‘Cheers.’

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn’t take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I’m a board member of Oceana, the world’s largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

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.

You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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 should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

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 moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, ‘Water’s polluted, no swimming.’ And I didn’t have any answers.

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.

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.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.