"I was here on the lot, doing a half-hour sitcom." "I was doing Taxi." "Jimmy and Les and Glen were in the process of casting Cheers." "There were three couples." "Shelley and I auditioned together." "We were paired up to audition, and two other sets of actors." "And on Stage 25 here, they put up some bleachers and a little teeny corner bar piece, and we did the first scene from the pilot on Cheers for about 30 or 40 people." "Are you Sam?" " Yes." " Yes, he's here." " Someone named Vicki." " No, no, no, no, no." "No, she knows you're here." "I told her you're here." "Well..." "Now, look... I'm sorry, I was wrong." "He had to step out." "Where?" "Well... I think what happened is he..." "He had..." "He had to go to mime class." "I got hired, I think, because I was part of a team." "I was part of the Ted and Shelley team." "Maybe you ought to step in and let me show you something I triumphed over." "Don't tell me you finally mastered the stapler." "Sam Malone. I like that he was an alcoholic. I love that." "Why aren't you still playing?" "I developed an elbow problem." "I bent it too much." "You were a drunk?" "I don't think the character would have been worth a hill of beans if he hadn't been an alcoholic." "I think that was brilliant and it brought a bit of sadness, and I like humour that comes out of some sort of real kind of human sadness." "He walked the line between being real enough for a jock in a bar who's had a little bit too much drink to go," ""Yeah, Sammy." "You're my man."" "But then you cross to the other side of the airport, and some woman who cares a great deal about women's issues will laugh and enjoy you, because he was transparent enough." "He was so stupidly Sam Malone that he didn't offend even a woman." "I've been in the mood for a movie all day long." "What kind of movie shall we see?" "Something short." "Working with Shelley Long... I really believe that she was the reason why Cheers really took off those first two years." "I think no one had seen a character like her before." "Now look, buster." "I do need a job, and I'll find one." "And you can bet that it won't be waiting tables." "What are you qualified to do?" "Nothing." "It was an amazing portrayal, and she was a really fine actor." "I always felt like it was a fair fight, and it always felt like a contact sport with Shelley." "No matter what had gone on during the day, when you got up in front of the audience and the cameras, it was like, if you whacked her, you got whacked back really hard." "I've never met an intelligent woman that I'd want to date." "On behalf of the intelligent women around the world, may I just say..." "You know, which is a fun, wonderful thing." "OK, I'm late." "My kid was throwing up all over the place." "You don't buy that, I quit, cos l don't work for a man who has no compassion for my children." "Rhea's the salt of the earth." "Rhea was the first person cast in Cheers." "She's always up, she's always funny." "If you're in the mood for gum, I can get you a fresh stick." "She's always energetic." "She's always happy to see you." "She's always brilliant." "The contest's phoney." "You gotta fool around with the judge to get in." "That's disgusting!" "Yeah, and he won't return my calls." "She's really, truly about my favourite person on the planet." " Afternoon, everybody." " Norm!" "George..." "George was like gravity to the show." "I mean, there he was, sitting at that end of the bar." "And if he wasn't there, it was almost like, what do you do?" "Tell me, how come you never got married?" "Well, Norm..." "Coach... lt's unfair to ask a woman to be the wife of a mailman." "Watch them get up every morning, strapping on that old mail bag, going out and hitting those mean streets, never knowing whether he's coming back or not." "Yeah, right." "Somewhere out there is a beagle with your name on it, right?" "Cliff, you know..." "What an amazing character." "He was so far out." "Johnny took him to such a different place, and yet you loved him, and he had pathos." "He was fully rounded and yet so from a different planet." "If you go back in history and take every president, you'll find that the numerical value of each letter in their last name was equally divisible into the year in which they were elected." "By my calculations, our next president has to be named" "Yelnik Mcwawa." "There are times when you couldn't believe what he did on camera and got away with, and made real." "Question is, if a tree falls in the woods, and if there's nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?" "Beavers could have chewed on it and gently lowered it to the ground." "You got me there on that one." "How about another beer?" "You surprise me, Cliff." "You're not prepared at all tonight." "Nick Colasanto was the heart and soul." "Coach was the heart and soul of the first two or three years of Cheers." "I mean, he was, you know..." "The sweetness of Cheers came out of his character." "The day Diane walked in here, I knew you were gonna get together." "Coach, this is just temporary." "I knew that, too." "Each person was highly individual, you know?" "That makes for, I think, something interesting." "When you put people together who are opposites or different, then it's interesting." "Listen, pencil neck, you're starting to get on my nerves." "Please don't call me pencil neck." "I am not a pencil neck." "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to call you pencil neck, gozzlehead." "I had the great opportunity to thank Les and Glen and Jimmy, but it's true." "The doors that they opened for me 20 years ago are still being opened because of Cheers." "I mean, I'm still riding that wave." "I had this... this moment last year." "I went, "Oh, my God!"" "I'm the actor who got to play Sam Malone, you know?" "I got to play Sam Malone." "Wow!"