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… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
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 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
