John Mahoney Quotes
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.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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We are like dwarfs the moderns sitting on the shoulders of giants the ancients. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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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.
