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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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" You see kids walking to the bus, and they're watching product on their phones. I'm positive that my grandkids and their grandkids are going to put on a pair of glasses and watch something. "

Jeffrey Tambor

Positive

Walking

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" As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.' "

" 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! "

" The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it. "

" The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances. "

" 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. "

" Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can only speak for me... but in my life, I find that, in sobriety, I feel much more, and I have much more depth. I also feel - not to segue, but as being a parent of five kids, I can bring much more to my acting, and so I'm all about anything that gives you more feeling and more depth. "

" You can send a lot of instruction through laughter. "

" 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. "

" I came to New York late; I was already past 30. "

" I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're so nimble; they picked us up two weeks after we premiered, and their whole attitude is, 'Go, go, go, go,' so I'm very, very impressed. "

" And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors. "

Jeffrey Tambor

Mentors

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" 'Attaboys' help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It's so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence. "

" I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting. "

Jeffrey Tambor

Not Knowing

" I don't take off my nail polish when I go home because I'm too lazy, and they're fine with it. Maybe the checkout at the grocery store's not so great with it, but they're fine with it. The distrust, the phobias, those are learned, those are taught. But the natural grace is to understand and to love. "

" I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month. "

" 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. "

Jeffrey Tambor

Summer

Father

" I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald. "

" I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keaton. I just love what he did. I love that mug. "

" I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business. "