John Mahoney Quotes

(on his decision to pursue an acting career) So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just intensely depressed all the time.

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.

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

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.

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.

But it was just like life was waiting for me to make that decision, and when I finally made it, it just took me places I never even believed existed.

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.

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.

I was going to be living there and I didn`t want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.