John Mahoney Quotes

• I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

  John Mahoney

  Inspiration, Believe, Divine

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• The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.

  John Mahoney

  Philadelphia, Years, Play

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• I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

  John Mahoney

  Care, Directors, Actors

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

  John Mahoney

  Opposites, Class, Play

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• I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.

  John Mahoney

  Dog, Robots, Actors

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• I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

  John Mahoney

  Dog, Persons

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• So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.

  John Mahoney

  Believe, America, Waiting

  "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.

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• People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

  John Mahoney

  Real, America, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

  John Mahoney

  Father, Home, Men

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• I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

  John Mahoney

  Years, Age, Needs

  Time Out Chicago interview, www.timeout.com.

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• You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

  John Mahoney

  Emotional, Boys, Attachment

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• I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

  John Mahoney

  Brother, Parent, Lessons

  "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.

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• I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

  John Mahoney

  Firsts, Gone, Mature

  "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.

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• What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

  John Mahoney

  Father, Play, Scripts

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• 'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

  John Mahoney

  Thinking, Play, Gigs

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

  John Mahoney

  Jobs, Team, Party

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• I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

  John Mahoney

  Growing Up, Children, Character

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• I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

  John Mahoney

  Sound, Want, Corny

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• I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

  John Mahoney

  Lines, Actors, Stage

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• I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

  John Mahoney

  Thinking, Criticism, Done

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

  John Mahoney

  Mother, Years, Firsts

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• I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

  John Mahoney

  Teacher, Brother, Fun

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• And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

  John Mahoney

  Black And White, Wizards, My Sister

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• I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.

  John Mahoney

  Care, Watches, Episodes

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• I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.

  John Mahoney

  Mean, Wow, Doe

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