John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger
John Dezso Ratzenberger is an American actor, voice actor and entrepreneur. He is best known as Cliff Clavin in Cheers. He is also known for his extensive vocal work in the Pixar movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth6 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
based cliff grew
I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
gotta surround
In showbiz, you've gotta surround yourself with real, down-home people. They'll keep you straight.
good-life conquer-the-world people
Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
father hippie party
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.
laughing comedian use
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
cheer real book
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.
projects turned-down
I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
determination preparation actors
So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
actors paid
Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
long hollywood lost
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
cute crush girl
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.
humor men thinking
Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola...
writing audience
You've got to write for your audience.
humor farce doe
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.