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 get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?

There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

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.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life. I mean, we're so different [in the cast], some of us. Miles apart. [But] when I see anyone from those days, I tap into that instant love for them.

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

We only have ten years to save the oceans