58 Quotes by John Mahoney

I don’t need the money after 11 years on ‘Frasier,’ and there aren’t that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I’m more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

I’m not intimidated by other actors at all – or directors. I don’t care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

People say there’s no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn’t because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

I’m a dog person; I’ve had dogs all my life.

I don’t take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what’s in there, see what kind of person I’m dealing with, and then forget I’m playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

I don’t much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of ‘Frasier’ that I have never seen.

I’ve played a lot of roles I haven’t wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn’t do it without me ’cause they don’t have anyone else the right age.