Zitat des Tages von Kelsey Grammer:
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
Tolerance actually does exist on Broadway.
Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion's a wonderful thing. I know a lot of people want to say, 'Religion's the only reason that man has had any trouble at all,' but you know what? World War I and World War II were not fought because of religious reasons.
I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'
All of the great music ever written is based upon the Mass. I mean, it's pretty extraordinary stuff, and I think it's done the world some good. And if you take a look at some of the mosques in the world, it calls you to worship the kind of beauty that's in there.
Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.
'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before.
I love to sit down and have my drink in the afternoon. It's so lovely if there's no noise, no calamities, no children that have to be attended to.
There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.
I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!
I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.
I know a lot of people who've lost their siblings and blame themselves.
It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
I've never really allowed anyone else to tell me whether I'm good or not.
I think of houses as having their own personality.
I've got this great home life I want to keep living, and I don't want to neglect it.
You have to know you are in a comedy. You have to know that you are actually allowing the audience to participate on some level. When you go dark and mean it, then you don't let them in.
For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
Life is supposed to get tough.
'Macbeth' is a show I'm going to do again someday.
Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
It takes me a while to figure things out. I usually have to repeat a lesson or two - maybe three times!
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
There's almost nothing better than a baguette and a pound of salami.
I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.
I can't say it was challenging for me to shake the image of Frasier. I've been fortunate to have had a very interesting career since the series ended. I think the turning point for me was the show, 'Boss.'
I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said, 'Frasier?'
Do I believe it's possible that some young person, young voting actor, or even older voting member for the Emmys, would sit there and go, 'Yeah, that's a great performance, but oooooh, I just hate everything he stands for?' I don't believe that's possible.
I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
I'm a walk-on guy. When the director says, 'Action,' I'm on.
As you wrestle with life... You're going to come out on the other end healed... I've fallen short sometimes, and I've risen pretty high a few times.