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… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
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… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
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… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life. — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
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… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37. — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play. — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
