Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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'That's So Raven' was my favorite show growing up! I loved Raven so much! That show is what made me want to be on Disney Channel!
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries, be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check.
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I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.
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I was with Robert Preston in 'Sly Fox.'
