“I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.”
“Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.”
“Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it’s not.”
“I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project.”
“You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.”
“So we had life, death, illness, everything – every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to do on stage, stronger. We got very much involved in what we were doing.”
“My wife says that my tombstone will read, ‘Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.’ So I think that’s probably what I’ll be remembered for.”
“Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.”
“Happy Days was about a family… although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.”
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