Tony Shalhoub

My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled…

— Tony Shalhoub

My dad was a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. He bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wis., and sold it to…

— Tony Shalhoub

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

— Tony Shalhoub

I have two daughters.

— Tony Shalhoub

I started out in the theater when I was a young actor, so I've always tried to move from one medium to…

— Tony Shalhoub

My mom was funny and nutty. I suppose she had to be to survive raising 10 kids. To cope and keep a…

— Tony Shalhoub

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.

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It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me…

— Tony Shalhoub

I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

— Tony Shalhoub

Henry Kissinger appeared on Dynasty. Have you had any celebrities outside of the film or acting realm that have said, "You know,…

— Tony Shalhoub

I don't want to take too long a vacation, although I do think I need a break. I start to - whenever…

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Luckily, the public sees me as a character actor.

— Tony Shalhoub

I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind…

— Tony Shalhoub

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

— Tony Shalhoub

Every project that I had an opportunity to do or chose to do, I wanted it to be different from the last…

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I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its…

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Theres always next year, ... except, you know, for Ray Romano.

— Tony Shalhoub

You make certain assumptions as a parent. And you kind of think, at a certain point, you've figured things out. And then…

— Tony Shalhoub

Before I did any television or film, I did years and years of theater. Television and film stuff, even though it went…

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I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it…

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I'm a very sensitive guy!

— Tony Shalhoub

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was…

— Tony Shalhoub

It's always a problem with television and with films, you always shoot things out of sequence, so you just take your best…

— Tony Shalhoub

I am an actor. I try to do different things.

— Tony Shalhoub

I get the opportunity to play all different ethnicities and not get stereotyped or locked into one. It's been a tremendous advantage,…

— Tony Shalhoub