John Larroquette Quotes

United States, Actor
November 25, 1947

John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American actor. His roles include attorney Dan Fielding on the 1984-1992 sitcom Night Court (winning an unprecedented four consecutive Emmy Awards for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series), Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride, John Hemingway on The John Larroquette Show, and Carl Sack in Boston Legal. He recently played Jenkins/Galahad in TNT's The Librarians.

I love working with Gary Sinise.

John Larroquette
I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.

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- People
- Life
- Good

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

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- People
- Happy
- Quality
Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

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- Good
- Character
I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

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Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

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I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

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- Reading
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

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- Done

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

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- Career
- Failure
When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

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- People
- Up
Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

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- Time
- World
- Thinking
I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

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You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

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- Time
- Work
- Important
I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

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- Career

I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.

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- Work