Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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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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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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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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What can I say about a world without Garry Shandling? This is where I need Garry. He would have something pithy, and there would be a laugh, and your heart would break at the same time. He changed my life.
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I'm the voice of a Chipotle Burrito. The world has changed.
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When I was a kid, we got up, we walked a number of paces to a television, turned it on, and changed channels.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The shedding of any clothes, when you're 70 years old, is tricky.
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Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.
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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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So many people say they went to school on 'The Larry Sanders Show.'
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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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And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
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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 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.