I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.
John Ratzenberger

You've got to write for your audience.
John Ratzenberger

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
John Ratzenberger

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
John Ratzenberger

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.
John Ratzenberger

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.
John Ratzenberger

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.
John Ratzenberger

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.
John Ratzenberger