Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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'm the voice of a Chipotle Burrito. The world has changed.
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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 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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Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.
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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 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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Some people have a mandate that you can't change.
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So many people say they went to school on 'The Larry Sanders Show.'
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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 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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And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
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Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is.
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You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.
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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?'