Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they’re uncomfortable laughs. – John Ratzenberger
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. – John Ratzenberger
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. – John Ratzenberger
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. – John Ratzenberger
I’m concerned about the insidious influence of the media’s bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters. – John Ratzenberger
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. – John Ratzenberger
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project. – John Ratzenberger
But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it’s not already gone. – John Ratzenberger
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. – 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. – John Ratzenberger
It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States. – John Ratzenberger
