John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and…

— John Mahoney

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over…

— John Mahoney

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by…

— John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in…

— John Mahoney

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my…

— John Mahoney

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like...…

— John Mahoney

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…

— John Mahoney

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage…

— John Mahoney

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of…

— John Mahoney

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the…

— John Mahoney

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…

— John Mahoney

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother…

— John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from…

— John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

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

— John Mahoney

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel…

— John Mahoney

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

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

— John Mahoney

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…

— John Mahoney

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got…

— John Mahoney

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing…

— John Mahoney

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that,…

— John Mahoney

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they…

— John Mahoney