Richard Dean Anderson Quotes

• We’re loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.

  Richard Dean Anderson

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  Tags in Kind, Together

• You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Little, Down

• They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I’m trying to attach my name to.

  Richard Dean Anderson

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  Tags in Trying, Around, Started

• There’s editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there’s not a lot of that for me.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Read, Actor, Normal

• That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in ‘Brief Candle.’

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nice, Fun, Wife

• So it allows me to travel, I’ll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I’ve done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Without, Doing

• Shanks and I tend to have a lot of fun. And, oh, any of The Simpsons’ episodes are my favorites too.

  Richard Dean Anderson

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  Tags in Fun

• Oh, who am I trying to kid? It’s a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It’s nuts. You know, I can’t be a part of it.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trying, Another, Here

• Nothing. We’re all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we’re dealing with, there’s usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that’s floating around.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Nothing, Friendly

• I’ve been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in America, Job

  Tags in Working

• I’ve also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it’s essentially an inner-city recreation club for boys and girls.

  Richard Dean Anderson

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  Tags in Girls, Working, City

• But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They’re the best. So it’s the food.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Over, Long

• Being away from her is torturous and I’d much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Real, Try

• Being a father, well, I don’t know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just ’cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Change, Living

• As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we’ll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we’ll be around for a while.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Around, Far

• Dogs are my favorite people.

  Richard Dean Anderson

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  Tags in Pet

Richard Dean Anderson (16)

Birth:	23rd January, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Composer, Producer

About

Richard Dean Anderson is an American television and film actor, television producer and composer. He began his television career
in 1976 as Dr. Jeff Webber in the American soap opera series General Hospital, then rose to prominence as the lead actor in the television series MacGyver . Anderson later appeared in films, including Through the Eyes of a Killer, Pandora's Clock and Firehouse.

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