Words matter. These are the best John Ritter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I had my serious side – I idolized Bobby Kennedy; he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis.
Dad didn’t wear the guns unless a report card came in that he didn’t particularly dig.
The thing that is so touching about – I can come right up and call him Mr. Simon. The thing that’s great about Mr. Simon is he really uses the audience as a partner, and they tell him what’s working and what’s not. So he’s always working on a play.
Me a TV star? I’ve got to be the luckiest guy in the world.
Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn’t even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.
I don’t have a temper. There’s no fist through the walls.
Neil Simon didn’t like it too much when we came out in clown makeup. We stopped doing that.
Sure, every young person dreams about being famous, but nobody wants to be famous – unless they’re Zsa Zsa Gabor – every single moment of every single day.
After you’ve watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, ‘Yes, sir,’ and meant it.
Basically, what I’m doing is what I want to do. I feel very lucky. And very satisfied.
I think you should experience life before you can recreate it.
I met Harry Thomason when I signed on with 20th Century Fox in 1985.
My father was a country music singer and a motion picture actor, Tex Ritter, and I sort of had a normal upbringing, except dad would come down in full regalia with the boots and the guns and the hats, and the horse would eat with us. But other than that, it was pretty normal.
Basically, I try to look at everything I do as a stretch.
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they’d be playing the theme song from ‘Three’s Company’.
