John Mahoney Quotes

I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

John Mahoney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 20, 1940 - February 4, 2018

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My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.

John J. McLaughlin

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Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.

Jeff Ross

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It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Jeff Goldblum

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To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Sofia Vergara

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In the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad is a big deal.

Tucker Carlson

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In 'The World Set Free,' the world's major superpowers attack each other simultaneously.

Tom Reiss

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The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.

Rivers Cuomo

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The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.

Ronda Rousey

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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

Douglas Sirk

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I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.

Deirdre O'Kane

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The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams.

Christoph Waltz

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