John Ratzenberger Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I don't know how many days I worked there [on Star Wars]. The thing I do remember was I somehow got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog. It was Jim Henson's space, with this Kermit the Frog sign. I took a photo of it and sent it to my mom with a caption that read, "Look, Mom. I made it. I got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog." I was always fascinated by the film-set infrastructures.

  John Ratzenberger

  Mom, Stars, War

  Source: www.starwars.com

• I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

  John Ratzenberger

  Design, Stuff, Film

  Source: www.starwars.com

• My uniform [in Star Wars] was cool. Not much else I can think of at the moment. You know, you don't know the enormity of these kinds of films until well after you're done.

  John Ratzenberger

  Stars, War, Thinking

  Source: www.starwars.com

• One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."

  John Ratzenberger

  Laughter, Fall, Squirrels

  Source: www.starwars.com

• I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go.

  John Ratzenberger

  Fun, Nice, New Orleans

  Source: www.starwars.com

• That was actually Lloyd Phillips who was a Kiwi film producer in L.A. And it was about Gorgeous George, not Haystacks Calhoun. I was in a couple of Lloyd's films and got approached to write the story. People don't realize it, but Gorgeous George had this flamboyant, camp stage persona that had a tremendous influence on other celebrities, like Elton John, Liberace, Elvis Presley, and Mohammed Ali, who all wanted to establish their own outlandish stage personas. The project died because Gorgeous George's wife refused to give up the rights.

  John Ratzenberger

  Giving Up, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.starwars.com

• I wrote another wrestling film script. And we finished the shooting [with Lloyd Phillips]. But Henry Winkler came out with his own wrestling film, which did poorly. So the studios passed on ours, and it never got released.

  John Ratzenberger

  Wrestling, Scripts, Shooting

  Source: www.starwars.com

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