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 Read Quote
I was going to be living there and I didn’t want to sound like a foreigner all my life. John Mahoney Read Quote
Frasier’ was a classy gig. I didn’t for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play. John Mahoney Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British. John Mahoney Read Quote
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 Read Quote
