Kelsey Grammer Quotes

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

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.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

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.

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

Life is supposed to get tough.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.