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.

John Mahoney

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• Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • You
  • Alive

• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Need

• 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.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Hope

• I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Wonder
  • Years
  • Movies

• I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Sick
  • Opera
  • Soap

• 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.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Control
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Things
  • Possible
  • Slow

• 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.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  

  Florence King
  • True
  • Memories
  • Nostalgia

• You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Fly
  • Everything

• 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.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Feel

• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Done
  • Said
  • Returns

• 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.'

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Discipline
  • Losing
  • View

• 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.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Friends
  • Small
  • Interesting

• Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• If you really want to follow me and know what I'm doing, it's Instagram. You know which city I'm in and what I'm doing. It's almost in real time.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Time
  • Real
  • City

• For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God

• I try to get out of a lot of things by just kind of morphing and and shifting - and that's the way I got into music in general, by being really into free music and improvised jazz music, and stuff like that.To me, the most abstract thing that you could possibly do in music is make a song that's under four minutes long. It doesn't make any sense to me.

  

  Chad VanGaalen
  • Music
  • Song
  • To Do

• Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

  

  Juan Rulfo
  • Forever
  • Memories
  • Matter

• That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.

  

  John Mahoney