49 Quotes by John Ratzenberger

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

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

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.

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.