Ed Begley, Jr.
Ed Begley, Jr.
Edward James "Ed" Begley Jr.is an American actor and environmentalist. Begley has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He is most recognized for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination and six consecutive Emmy Award nominations. He also co-hosted, along with wife Rachelle Carson, the green living reality show entitled Living with Ed...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 September 1949
CityHartford, CT
CountryUnited States of America
We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There are problems with air pollution around the country that we need to deal with, and around the world. We have a great many problems to overcome, so I work on a lot of different boards trying to help in those important areas.
I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.
Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.
I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.
If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.
When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.