Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

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• I thought that the hardest part would be the external - would be the - oh, nails and the hair and the makeup and the dress and the heels and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And actually, that wasn't the hardest. That was very, very, very easy for me, and I liked it.

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  Makeup, Hair, Nails

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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• On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change the world and all of that. Our job is that we have these human characters, and it's our responsibility to play them truthfully and as human as possible. Jill has cast this impeccably. These actors nail it, even the non-Pfeffermans. It's ridiculous.

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  Jobs, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

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  Uber, Directors, Cards

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• I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.

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  Crush, Mean, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably."

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• In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

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  Sobriety, Depth, Feels

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Winning, Walking Away, Cities

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• Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.

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  Mean, People, Different

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

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  Daughter, Mother, Dad

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• 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.

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  Dad, Sunday, People

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• 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!

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  Education, Nice, Play

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• Garry Shandling in particular - really had the concept. He really knew it, and it was done so lovingly. He would go beyond the joke, and sort of go into the character. His "funny" was very different, and I really appreciated it.

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  Character, Different, Done

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the cufflinks, the whole nine yards - he came at me, and I thought I was going to get nailed. But he literally came up to me and just gave me a hug and said, "Thank you for introducing me to a subject that I didn't know anything about." In those moments it always clicks for me what we're doing here.

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  Shoes, Guy, Hug

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

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  Thinking, Sobriety, Touching

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Class, Acting, Way

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• I loved Hank Kingsley. He was very real to me. There was just something about that character. I really believed him. I didn't think he was a buffoon. I understood the inner workings of him, so I sort of felt sorry for him, the poor guy. He was very important to me.

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  Sorry, Real, Character

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous about my being an actor.

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  Dad, Actors, Nervous

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, December 10, 2015.

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• When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And I remember the mother saying, tell Jeffrey to go home. And I said to the girl, I said, why? She goes, my mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.

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  Girl, Mother, Home

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• I came to New York late; I was already past 30

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  New York, Past, Late

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• Guillermo del Toro. He's in his pure artist's stroke. He's just hitting it out of the park. I would go anywhere to work with him. He's a real artist.

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  Real, Artist

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I had a lot of questions where I had to be very frank and clinical. I had to go to school on it about what it could mean physically to be trans and the options that have to be weighed and considered. But I love that. Exploring that opens my worldview in ways that I would never be able to try.

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  School, Mean, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I get a singular comment that's very revealing: "I didn't know what to expect." Every time I hear that I think it's really just code for, "I wasn't sure I'd be comfortable with you in this role," which I understand coming from Oscar Bluth and Hank Kingsley and whatever. But I think there's a degree of, "Oh, okay, this is how it is." Then almost always people tell me that they love it and then people start talking to me about their families, whether it's transgender issues or not.

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  Thinking, Talking, Issues

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You keep your head down and you work and work, and all of a sudden you pick your head up and people are receiving it the same way we're sending it. They're thinking the same things that I'm thinking about the show.

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  Thinking, People, Receiving

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I am not so concerned with how many Rotten Tomatoes we have - although the good reviews are to be wished for, of course - but I have my hands full in the daily housekeeping of doing Maura right and being truthful to this experience.

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  Hands, Tomatoes, Rotten

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• 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.

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  Friends, Regret, Three

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