Parent Quotes by 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 a huge…

— John Mahoney

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

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

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

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

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

— John Mahoney

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

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

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

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

— 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

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