I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.

I’m basically a know-it-all, and I’m writing a book about it. I want it to be called ‘Danson on Water’ and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn’t take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I’m a board member of Oceana, the world’s largest...

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

I don’t think it’s a matter of, do you win the game or not, it’s how gracefully do you play it.

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.

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.

I’ve never been that guy who says, ‘Ooh, I have to play King Lear’. First off, that’d be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who’s involved, and then know I want...

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it’ll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let’s take...

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we’ve known it, is what’s questionable.

I don’t think I’m as educated as Whoopi, so I’m lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it...

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we’ve been created to dominate...

I’m an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn’t tell you.

Looking out at the ocean, it’s easy to feel small – and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth’s seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

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.

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

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We...

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...

I’m at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.

Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour...

I am forever grateful for ‘Cheers.’

Usually if you’re the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.

California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

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...

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you’re more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

I’m from L.A. I’m an actor. I’m a flake.

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...

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That’s the case with any good series.

When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won’t kill you and you won’t kill them.

You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you’re really stupid.

I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, ‘Water’s polluted, no swimming.’ And I didn’t have any answers.

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 lines with thousands of lethal hooks and...

My father went to work every day, and it’s my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won’t be so good, but I have to go to work.

The pressure isn’t on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person’s life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience’s attention.

You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

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 resources...

I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I’m Sam Malone the editor. I’m Sam Malone the billionaire.

I feel very strongly that you can’t just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won’t happen otherwise.

How much do you engage yourself in what’s truly real and important in life? That’s the individual question.

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...

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

My joints hurt. I’m slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.

We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.