Ted Danson confronts his relevance in GQ

We've always liked Ted Danson, but in the past couple of years we've come to love him.

Truly, once you've seen him snort cocaine off a hooker while ordering a hit on an enemy during the first season of "Damages" it's really hard not to love him.

In the February issue of GQ, the 62-year-old actor talks about the drama coach who helped him find his "Damages" character, Arthur Frobisher.

"We read some lines together and he told me basically: 'You're a nice actor; you know where this is supposed to go, and you're going to take me there. But you're playing an arrogant billionaire who could give a rat's ass about anybody else. Maybe you'll say one line and you won't say the next. F*** 'em.'

"There's an arrogance and entitlement to my acting style now. It was very liberating."

In a one-two punch, Danson is following up his "Damages" role with the delightfully eccentric magazine editor George Christopher on HBO's "Bored to Death," and despite the deliberately comedic tones insists all of his parts are for the past part the same one.

"I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business," Danson tells GQ. "The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire."

Not that it's hard to be Sam Malone. Unless you want to be taken seriously. Danson, a board member of the non-profit organization Oceana, would like to write a book about what's happening in the world's oceans.

"I have to somehow justify the fact that the guy who played Sam Malone is now going to talk to you about fish. Because it's natural to want to discount it."

No doubt he'll find a way.

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