John Mahoney Quotes

#1. And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

Ozzy Osbourne

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

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.

Michael Heisley

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

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

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. People are much more interesting than people realise.

Peter Ackroyd

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

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#17. When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt. So

N.K. Jemisin

#18. 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.

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#19. I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

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#20. The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve others. We become more substantive as we serve others - indeed, it is easier to "find" ourselves because there is so much more of us to find!

Spencer W. Kimball

#21. That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.

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#22. 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.

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#23. Marriage is work, Cora, I'm not going to lie. It's glorious some days and not so much on others.

Rachel Hauck

#24. I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

Aaron Staton

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

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#26. 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.

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

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#28. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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#31. We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.

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#32. 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.

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#33. 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.

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#34. Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.

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