John Larroquette Quotes

I’d turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it – actually discuss it. It won’t happen. Unless the grid goes down.

Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

The only thing I haven’t done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I certainly don’t condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

I don’t celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It’s not a really big thing.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you’re not really successful.

Write more. That’s the advice I would give myself.

I’d like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday, and there’s not a nick, not a blur, there’s not any fading on the jacket at all, because they were taken and protected. A limited edition, by nature, is limited, and also probably more protected because of that. I’d rather have a first trade edition than a special one of 25 that was made years later, even if it’s signed by the author. The trade edition is the Holy Grail.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don’t need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.