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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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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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 have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
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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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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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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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I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.
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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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There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.
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Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?
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Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
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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.
