Quotes
On Acting: "The medium doesn't matter. I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy."
- The Washington Post
More On Acting: At a film festival in Sun Valley, Idaho, actor John Larroquette of "Night Court" fame told audience members that "good acting comes from finding the essence of a character."
On Hosting a Talk Show: "I wouldn't mind doing one on a computer screen, where you didn't see anybody, you know, but you had just guests from all over the country and you tuned in in cyberspace. I think it's the only place left. Do a talk show in cyberspace."
On Art: "When I call myself an artist, please realize I do this with my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek . . . "
On Leisure Time: "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."
On Happiness: "I love my wife and my children, but I never had much talent for happiness."
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On Meeting his Wife: When he moved to Los Angeles in 1973 he soon joined the Colony Company Theatre, first acting in "The Crucible" and then in "Enter Laughing," where he met his wife Elizabeth. She is English, a fulfillment of one passion for Larroquette, who says, "I have been an Anglophile since I was 10 years old."
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On Books: "When there are lots of books around me, I feel safe, I feel secure, I feel in the company of others even though I may be sitting in my study all alone."
- "A Gentle Madness" by Nicholas Basbanes
More On Books: Larroquette has approximately 3,000 books. "Everything is well protected and on display," he says. "I love reading them. My wife gets irritated sometimes when I fall asleep in bed with a signed William Faulkner on my chest."
Some of his first editions are inscribed. "The primary thing I look for is to find one in as good condition as possible preferably the trade edition, because those are the ones which are most ephemeral," he says.
Larroquette whose passion for reading began as a child, began collecting in the early '80s.
``I was doing a play, Endgame, by Samuel Beckett,'' he recalls.
``I walked into a store and they had a collection of Samuel Beckett books 16 volumes that Grove Press had printed in the early '70s. I wasn't a working actor yet, but I was trying to be a working actor. I scraped together the $100 they were asking for the collection and bought it.''
When he was cast in the NBC sitcom Night Court, for which he won four Emmys, Larroquette began collecting in earnest, buying ``a copy here, a copy there'' of the books he loved.
- Lexington Herald Leader/Home & Garden
On Hunting: John Larroquette is and always has been a hunter. In Pierre, S.D., last weekend for a jamboree put on by the Varmint Hunters Association, the Emmy-winning actor was asked whether Hollywood finds his pastime unusual. "Not the people I shoot with. They don't think it's strange," Larroquette said. He said hunting and boating were the norm when he was growing up in Louisiana.
The Detroit News ~ 8/26/98
On Louisiana: Growing up in Louisiana, he absorbed an earthiness which seeps through the pores of many of his characters, though he says it's never a conscious playback of people or events he has known. "I think it's just habitual from being born and raised in New Orleans . . . the great theatre on the streets, the music and food, the sensuality . . . I ate things like frog legs and chicken feet."
On Alcoholism: "I thought that once I got the cure, that I would be able to, you know, be a man and a gentleman and drink like an Earthling. And I was proven many times that I could not do that. You know, the old -- the man once told me that the definition of insanity is repetition of the same action expecting different results. So I just, you know, I'm just better, without it."
- Larry King Live (Video Clip)
On Personal Safety: Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.
On The John Larroquette Show:
"It can only help us," says Larroquette of the recent move back to Tuesday. Although he believes the Saturday time slot, rather than the show's content, occasioned the ratings slump, he acknowledges that the show is seeking to find its balance. "Perhaps we were playing too much to the dark side of this character and we do need to be a little more centrist. All leading men, a category in which I find myself, are somewhat dysfunctional, and it's important to find the right amount of dysfunction so that the audience can identify with it but not mind watching it."
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On The 10th Kingdom & Scary Fairytales: "I always loved ' Hansel and Gretel ' because I've many times wanted to cook my children."
- 'Kingdom Come' by Catherine Felty
On The 10th Kingdom & his character Tony Lewis: "My character is drawn into the adventure because of the intense protective instincts he has toward his daughter." Larroquette explains. "But like all major characters he has lessons to learn along the way. This is just fantastic story telling and I mean that in every sense of the word. It has every human emotion in it. It has humor and pathos and it's an amazing story."
He also loved the surreal element to the tale, "What a blast," he enthuses. "There were days when I'd be surrounded by trolls, talking dogs and evil huntsmen.
And I'd be thinking, 'They say life in America is wacky!'"
- Telewest Cable Guide April 2000 - By Daphne Lockyer
On Pokemon: "It's a different viewpoint [for me] because Pokemon scares the hell out of me. All of these little gerbil things running around with lightning coming out of their asses. Doesn't that scare you?"
- Canoe · Canada's Internet Network
On Lost In Space: "I loved Lost In Space because it was a unique combination of adventure and comedy."
On narrating "Texas Chainsaw Massacre":
Hooper (Director): We edited and scored the movie in my house. I needed a voice to read the [opening] crawl, and I asked John. I asked him to do a John Larroquette imitation of Orson Welles.
John: I just used my most senatorial, serious tone. There will be a footnote in my biography forever that I narrated The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. But I’m the only person in America who hasn’t seen the movie.
- Premiere.com (February 2001)
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