John Mahoney
John Mahoney
John Mahoneyis an Anglo-American actor. Born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, Mahoney started his career on the stage in 1977 as the body double for Steve McQueen and moved into film in 1980. He played Martin Crane in the American sitcom Frasier on NBC from 1993 to 2004. He has also worked as a voice actor, and performed on Broadway and in Chicago theatre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth20 June 1940
barrier break regular
I don't want to break that $3 barrier yet for regular (unleaded gas).
care directors actors
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.
father play scripts
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.
thinking criticism done
I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.
care watches episodes
I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.
growing-up children character
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
inspiration believe divine
I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.
thinking play gigs
Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.
real america people
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.
black-and-white wizards my-sister
And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.
dog actors done
I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
sound want corny
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
sister war saws
It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
jobs team party
I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.