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
actors paid
Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
children kids my-family
Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
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.
people would-be different
There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.
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.
good-life conquer-the-world people
Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
age bit learned swear word
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.
people
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.