John Mahoney Quotes

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

John Mahoney

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Gold

• One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • High
  • Mountain
  • Blood

• I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
  • More
  • Accomplished

• I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Fiction

• You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Serious

• I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Stories
  • Books

• I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Model
  • Building

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Myself
  • Proud
  • Thought

• I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Beach

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Great
  • Change

• I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Think

• Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • You
  • Learn

• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Work
  • Music
  • Live

• They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Thinking
  • Smart
  • Policy

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

  

  James Packer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• 'What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.'

  

  David Ben-Gurion

• I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

  

  John Mahoney