Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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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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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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That's just me and my own body issues - I think I'm fat and bald and old and ugly.
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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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Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.
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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 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 was with Robert Preston in 'Sly Fox.'
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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 shedding of any clothes, when you're 70 years old, is tricky.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.
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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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And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
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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.'