John Mahoney Quotes
That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
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If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.
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No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.
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Globalization is a process that encompasses the causes, course, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities.
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In the shorter term, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will have a palpable effect on the national economy.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?
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I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.
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That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.
