Before I did any television or film, I did years and years of theater. Television and film stuff, even though it went on for a good, healthy number of years, almost felt like a diversion from theater. — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself. — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one. — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people. — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles. — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I try to do other characters that are different from Monk, obviously, because I'd like to be remembered for more than just that. — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily. — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I'm from a Lebanese-American family. And I've been had lot of contacts and - with Arab-American community, especially Arab-American filmmakers and actors and so… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater - more theater than anything else - and when I was doing… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
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