John Mahoney Quotes

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 to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.
John Mahoney

Family, Mother, Away

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 movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.
John Mahoney

Black, Sister, Movie

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.
John Mahoney

Play, Less, Classy

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.
John Mahoney

Good, Audience, Divine

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
John Mahoney

Character, Children, Growing

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.
John Mahoney

Teacher, School, Fun

I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.
John Mahoney

Care, Seen, Watch

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 interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.
John Mahoney

Age, Money, Great

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 his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.
John Mahoney

Work, Home, Father

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.
John Mahoney

Done, Criticism, United

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 the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.
John Mahoney

Learn, Head, Stage

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

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
John Mahoney

Marriage, Fear, End

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

Life, Living, Sound

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.
John Mahoney

Women, Gone, Mature

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 an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
John Mahoney

Life, Person, Done

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.
John Mahoney

Life, Person, Dog

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.
John Mahoney

Care, Hold, Writers

I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.
John Mahoney

Great, Best, Business

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 it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.
John Mahoney

Age, Someone, Play

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 over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
John Mahoney

War, Everything, Sister

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
John Mahoney

War, Everything, Sister

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

Play, Acting, Known

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 that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.
John Mahoney

Real, Hard, America

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
John Mahoney

Waiting, Greatest, Saying

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: June 20, 1940

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