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" You can send a lot of instruction through laughter. "
Jeffrey Tambor
Laughter
Send
Through
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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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" 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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" The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances. "
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" The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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Losing
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" As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.' "
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Wonderful
Says
" 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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" And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors. "
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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. "
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Walking
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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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" 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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