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John Mahoney

John Mahoney Biography

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John Mahoney, born on June 20, 1940, is an accomplished American actor known for his roles in various television series and films. He is recognized for his distinctive acting style and sense of humor.

John Mahoney, born on June 20, 1940, is an accomplished American actor known for his roles in various television series and films. He is recognized for his distinctive acting style and sense of humor.

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“The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.”

Years Firsts Play Names Imagine Stage Huge Mouths Imagine That Terrified Philadelphia Gary

Author:John Mahoney

“I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.”

Thinking Needs Two Jobs Lost Realizing Party Team Creating Election Democratic Presidential Farms Democratic Party Better Jobs Presidential Election

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“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.”

Firsts Stills War States United United States Saws Posts Gray My Sister Sister Brides Dreary Post War

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

Want Sound Corny Foreigners

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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 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.”

Knows Littles Persons Done Actors Emotion Five Dog Seasons Display Swear Robots

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“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.”

States Black White Glorious My Sister Black And White Wizards

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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. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.”

People Real Hard Reason America Loses British Symbols Accents Status Symbol

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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 play.”

Thinking Play Minutes Artistic Gigs One Minute Prestigious

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

Believe Inspiration I Believe Audience Divine I Believe In Participating Relish Divine Inspiration

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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 doing character parts.”

Children Character Boys Growing Up Growing Theater Manchester

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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 never seen.”

Stills Care Watches Episodes

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“I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.”

Thinking States Done United United States Criticism British Merit

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

Firsts Gone Conflict Mature

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“I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.”

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“My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.”

Firsts Littles Play Acting Known Class Taught Opposites Casts Playwright Acting Classes

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“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 attachment to England.”

Feels Boys Emotional Huge England Attachment

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“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.”

Years Firsts States Mother Born My Family Eighteen Manchester Blackpool

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“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.”

Want Hard States Kids School Law Fun Interest Acting Teacher Inspire Brother Horrible In-laws Milton English Teacher Donne Brother In Law

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“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.”

Needs Years Age Left Bits Roles

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“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.”

Men Play Home Father My Own Quiet Piano Coming Home

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“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.”

I Can Actors Lines Stage Honestly

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“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.”

Want Made Ends Parent Brother Lessons My Brother Brothers And Sisters

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“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.”

Care Actors Directors Highest Don't Care Esteem I Don't Care Intimidated

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“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.”

Knows Mean Doe Okay Managers Wow

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“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.”

Play Age Wanted Causes Roles Havens Needed Theatre Needed Someone

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“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.”

Believe Happens America Actors Waiting Talent Tables Luck Honestly Driving Bars Taxi Waiting Tables

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“What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.”

Kind Persons Play Father Forget Hell Scripts

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About the Author

Born: June 20, 1940
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 27

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