Ted Danson

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

“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.”

“I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'...”

“I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.”

“My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be...”

“I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.”

“Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human acti...”

“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 w...”

“'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...”

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

“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 resourc...”

“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'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.”

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

“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, h...”

“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 im...”

“The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long line...”

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

“You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.”

“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.”