John Mahoney Quotes

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• I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
• It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went…
• I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
• 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 little robot. It's…
• And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the…
• 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…
• Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.
• I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.
• I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
• I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.
• I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.
• I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.
• I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.
• My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
• 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 emotional…
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more…
• 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 to…
• I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what…

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