Ted Danson

“One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.”

“Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.”

“Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.”

“My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.”

“How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.”

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

“To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.”

“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.”

“I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.”

“'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley.”

“A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.”

“Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.”

“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.”

“I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.”

“I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.”

“You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.”