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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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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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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Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
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Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we look for opportunities for us to sit down and say, 'How are things going for you? Is there anything that we can do as parents to help you? Let's all come up with a solution together.' We work better as a team.
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I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.
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Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
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I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and a childhood where my parents, of course, exposed us to many cultural aspects, not only of India but other parts of the world.
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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.
