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I did not know that you had to learn makeup. I just thought you went, 'Oh, I'm gonna put on some makeup.'
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I don't mind if someone yells a motto out of their car at me. 'No touching! No touching!' No harm is done.
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I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.
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My new toy is not knowing, because it's very creative. I'm the guy who likes to get in the car and get lost.
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People are identifying not only with the trans movement, but also the Pfefferman family. What I am noticing is people are coming up on the street and talking about their life and their family, and they say, 'Your family is just like mine.'
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When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.
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I was with Robert Preston in 'Sly Fox.'
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I went bald when I was 18. My father cried. He cried about many things. But it allowed me to play older men in summer stock.
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So many people say they went to school on 'The Larry Sanders Show.'
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I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.
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Some people have a mandate that you can't change.
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When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'
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I think Maura'is funnier than I am, wittier than I am, more intelligent than I am, and I think she's just floating me at this point.
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I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.
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Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is.
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We all know about secrets - to have that pressure of something you can't reveal. That's universal: 'Am I safe? Am I gonna be OK? Will my family still love and respect me?'
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I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.
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The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I'm 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.
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And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
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I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.
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What's interesting about playing Maura is that I get to use more of Jeffrey that I've ever used in any role, and I think that's the remarkable part about it and truly the most surprising part about doing this role.
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I am the Internet guy. But the reason the 'Onion News Empire' was such an easy decision to make is I so trust that side of the fence now.
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The Tambors were conservative Jews, and we attended Temple Beth Shalom at 14th Avenue and Clement Street in San Francisco. We were the only Jewish family for miles. To me, being Jewish meant 'otherness.'
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'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.
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