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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
That’s how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn’t start acting until I was 37. John Mahoney Read Quote
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. John Mahoney Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience. John Mahoney Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone. John Mahoney Read Quote
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 Read Quote
