John Ratzenberger

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#connecticut #friends #grew #i #up

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#diabetes #i #money #past #raising

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#character #cliff #grew #i #improvising

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#acting school #been #far #get #i

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

#bad #concerned #daughters #i #influence

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#before #down #i #projects #turned

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

#bit #childhood #fact #first #five

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#calling #get #many #off #people

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

#decide #me #never #people #real

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#guts #just #many #need #preparation