Tony Shalhoub Quotes

You make certain assumptions as a parent. And you kind of think, at a certain point, you’ve figured things out. And then all of a sudden, that person that you raised and nurtured and thought that you knew is someone else completely.

It was never really one of my goals to gain tremendous amount of celebrity or make a tremendous amount of money necessarily.

I’m a very sensitive guy!

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are – I’m not that familiar with their work – I just want to say, there’s always next year – except, you know, for Ray Romano .

‘Longtime Companion‘ was really the first movie that I know of that addressed the problem of AIDS. This was back in the ’80s that we did this.

I am an actor. I try to do different things.

‘Quick Change‘ was my first real movie. It was an interesting audition process because there were no lines in the script. Bill Murray’s character would say something, and Geena Davis and Randy Quaid would say something, and then it would just say, ‘The cabbie speaks.’ How do you audition for that?

I’m drawn to that period, the ’50s.

You’re not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

My father had season tickets to the Packer games, and I have several of those. I have a lot of family that still lives in the Bay Area and in Wisconsin, too. And so, I like to get back as often as I can.

I’ve been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater – more theater than anything else – and when I was doing films, that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.

Before I did any television or film, I did years and years of theater. Television and film stuff, even though it went on for a good, healthy number of years, almost felt like a diversion from theater.

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it’s understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that’s a true moment.

I worked in the theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts for years and moved to New York and then to Los Angeles.

My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green Bay, Wis., married, bought a house, and he and my mom, Helen, raised 10 kids. Everything depended on his one-man business driving a truck.

I try to do other characters that are different from Monk, obviously, because I’d like to be remembered for more than just that.

I started out in the theater when I was a young actor, so I’ve always tried to move from one medium to the other.

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.

I have two daughters.

I get the opportunity to play all different ethnicities and not get stereotyped or locked into one. It’s been a tremendous advantage, I think.

I don’t look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one.