Quotes by Ted Danson

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.

— Ted Danson

Success

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

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

Success

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

— Ted Danson

Happiness

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

— Ted Danson

Success

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.

— Ted Danson

Success

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Success

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

— Ted Danson

Success

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

Wisdom

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

— Ted Danson

Wisdom

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

Wisdom