John Ratzenberger Quotes

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

I love being a television actor. I love the relationship that I have with my fans, and all of those things. I'm ready to have a show that really hits big. I'm excited to do another six years or more of a show like I did on 'Reba.'

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.

It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job, and I didn't know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn't until the third and fourth series - the fourth series especially - that I really found my feet with the character, and as an actress.

I play the role of Andrew Campbell on ABC Family's 'Pretty Little Liars'.

'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.

I'm in this new Showtime series called 'Ray Donovan.' I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.

With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.

I was Pippa on 'Home And Away' for nearly a decade.

I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked.

My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.

'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit.

I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.

It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'

To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'

Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.

I'd love my own show, but I'm really happy to be on 'Pretty Little Liars.'

My favorite commercial I did was my Verizon campaign, which I filmed a series of three commercials. My favorite movie I have done was 'House Under Siege' because it was my very first movie at 5 years old. My favorite TV show I have filmed was 'The Night Shift,' which is one of my favorite shows.

I am really grateful to 'Balika Vadhu' for the recognition I have got because of it. People know me and like me because of it.

When I was on 'Haven,' my nickname was 'Sasquatch.'