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Ted Danson
American
Actor
Born:
Dec 29
,
1947
Life
Me
People
Think
Work
You
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You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
Ted Danson
You
Lose
Energy
Lot
Being
Use
Grumpy
When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
Ted Danson
Sense Of Humor
People
Humor
Sense
Admire
Stuff
Still
Heavy
Midst
Really
Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
Ted Danson
Sharks
Trouble
Real
Get
Help
Need
A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
Ted Danson
Me
Will
Bad
Someone
Allow
Friend
Hold
Against
Really
Who
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
Ted Danson
Good
People
Humor
Joke
Deflect
Some
Tent
Subject
Surrounding
Intensity
Serious
Bring
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.
Ted Danson
Success
You
Money
Will
Job
Made
Whatever
Think
Other
Typecast
Say
Out
Shadow
Had
Look
Industry
Parts
Always
Hire
Were
Up
Getting
Being
Want
Successful
Actor
Last
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.
Ted Danson
World
Organization
Ocean
Swimming
Local
Our
Later
Member
Beach
Daughters
Take
Became
Because
Issues
Years
Pollution
Board
Interested
Dedicated
International
Twenty-Five
Largest
Conservation
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.
Ted Danson
You
Looking
Our
Resources
Way
System
Having
Point
Pick
Ecosystem
Piece
Because
Gotten
Truly
Managing
Being
Whole
Coordinated
Away
Start
Need
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.
Ted Danson
Environmental
Together
Organization
Recycling
State
Project
Promote
Angeles
Los
Los Angeles
Motor
Get
Get Together
Oil
Where
Oil Company
Used
Company
Here
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.
Ted Danson
Work
You
Business
People
Big
Otherwise
Ways
Find
Strongly
Compromise
Beat
Feel
Involved
Because
Big Business
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Up
Very
Get
Just
Anymore
Happen
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.
Ted Danson
Work
You
Solar
Whatever
Different Kinds
Kinds
Develop
Industry
Renewable
Auto
Auto Industry
Oil
Different
Oil Companies
Whether
Fuel
Companies
I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
Ted Danson
You
Game
Win
Matter
Think
How
Gracefully
Play
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
Ted Danson
Life
You
Yourself
Important
Individual
How
Real
How Much
Truly
Question
Much
Engage
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.
Ted Danson
Me
You
Anxiety
Reading
Whatever
Tell
About
Something
Between
Disasters
Reducing
Doing
Up
Getting
Difference
Being
Different
Victimized
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.
Ted Danson
You
Will
Feeling
Victim
Benefit
Solution
Something
Part
Feel
Like
Making
Huge
Psyche
Just
Stop
Which
Body
Your
Your Body
Actively
Start
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.
Ted Danson
You
Phone
Somebody
Kiss
Other
Else
Bizarre
London
Houston
Off
Very
Person
Goes
Being
Paying
Works
Each
Actor
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
Ted Danson
Good
Father
Example
Knee
Come
Like
Learned
Were
Lessons
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.
Ted Danson
Me
Book
Writing
Water
About
Cover
Want
Standing
Basically
Pose
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.
Ted Danson
Hurt
Remember
Run
Slower
Joints
Like
Boy
Want
Play
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.
Ted Danson
Character
Business
Rest
Recycling
Think
Editor
Real
Real Character
Handful
Sam
Us
Billionaire
Now
Actor
Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
Ted Danson
You
Job
Energy
Host
Part
Center
Your
Show
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.
Ted Danson
Best
Opportunity
Think
Everything
Out
Some
Had
Allowed
Come
Cheers
Am
Been
Friends
Shows
Ever
Funniest
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.
Ted Danson
You
Tell
Scared
Never
Retired
Know
Always
Am
Been
Just
Actor
Vacation
I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
Ted Danson
Try
Big
Become
Stay
See
He
Him
Because
Big Movie
Movie
Woody
Movie Star
Star
Away
I eat less, stretch, and work out.
Ted Danson
Work
Out
Eat
Work Out
Less
Stretch
I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
Ted Danson
Life
You
Struggle
Will
Think
Dramatic
Television
Finding
Arc
Attention
Make
Audience
Real
Person
Whenever
Movie
Hold
Film
Based
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