Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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That's just me and my own body issues - I think I'm fat and bald and old and ugly.
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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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You just put your head down and do the work.
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Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.
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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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The shedding of any clothes, when you're 70 years old, is tricky.
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I'm a Jewish son of Russian-Hungarian heritage parents. Humor was very important. My whole goal was to make my parents laugh. And my whole strategy as a young man was, if I could make them laugh, I could have enough time to figure out what to do next.
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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 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 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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'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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Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is.
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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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You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.
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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 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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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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And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
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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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So many people say they went to school on 'The Larry Sanders Show.'
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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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Some people have a mandate that you can't change.
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Every family has that secret. Every family has that thing where you go, 'Shhh, shhh, shhh.'