Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

#1. There's always been something about Jeffrey Tambor, not only as an actor but as a person, where his ability to embody a sort of very dignified feminine way of being just - this was just very clear to me.

Jill Soloway

#2. You're stuck with me."
She sniffled. "Promise?"
He rested his forehead against hers. "Cross my heart.

Kaylea Cross

#3. The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

Jeffrey Tambor

#4. In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

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#5. You keep your head down and you work and work, and all of a sudden you pick your head up and people are receiving it the same way we're sending it. They're thinking the same things that I'm thinking about the show.

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#6. And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

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#7. My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.

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#8. I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

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#9. I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

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#10. As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

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#11. My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

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#12. You push a button and it goes all over the world and on Sunday people are saying, 'Oh, I binge watched all 10 of them. Where's more?' and you go oh, the world has changed. It's not my dad walking to the television set and turning a knob to Ed Sullivan.

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#13. I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

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#14. In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

Lisa Guerrero

#15. I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

Jeffrey Tambor

#16. I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous about my being an actor.

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#17. I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

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#18. This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

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#19. No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer.

Alan Cohen

#20. I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.

Jeffrey Tambor

#21. I had a lot of questions where I had to be very frank and clinical. I had to go to school on it about what it could mean physically to be trans and the options that have to be weighed and considered. But I love that. Exploring that opens my worldview in ways that I would never be able to try.

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#22. I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

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#23. When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And I remember the mother saying, tell Jeffrey to go home. And I said to the girl, I said, why? She goes, my mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.

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#24. When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

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#25. Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

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#26. I thought that the hardest part would be the external - would be the - oh, nails and the hair and the makeup and the dress and the heels and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And actually, that wasn't the hardest. That was very, very, very easy for me, and I liked it.

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#27. As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

Norman Spinrad

#28. Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.

Jeremy Jones