"I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging……" — John Mahoney
"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 go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne."
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29 Quotes by John Mahoney
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I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating…
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It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United…
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I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
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I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more…
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And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like,…
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People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it.…
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Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a…
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I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.
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I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always…
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I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have…
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I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.
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I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.
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I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.
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