Jeffrey Tambor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Daughter #Mother #Dad
The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Awards #Ensemble #Should
I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Running #Long #Giving
And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Mentor #Watches
My part had three lines. I said, You look wonderful, sir, three times. All my friends said, Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life. I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Friends #Regret #Three
My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Education #Nice #Play
This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Winning #Cities #Water
I came to New York late; I was already past 30
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#New York #Past
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Class #Acting #Way
You push a button and it goes all over the world and on Sunday people are saying, 'Oh, I binge watched all 10 of them. Where's more?' and you go oh, the world has changed. It's not my dad walking to the television set and turning a knob to Ed Sullivan.
-- Jeffrey Tambor

#Dad #Sunday #People

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