My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.

You reach a certain age, and you realize, ‘Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don’t leave me out – I don’t want to be left behind. I want to...

To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction – that you create your own life.

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn’t going to work.

I eat less, stretch, and work out.

I’m almost tempted, when I’m playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and...

‘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...

Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

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 activity affect the ocean, changing the pH...

Everything I am, everything I’ve been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with ‘Cheers’. I think it’s one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best...

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...