Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

"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
(Related: Winning, Actor, Being, Losing, Walking)

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

"When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle."
- Jeffrey Tambor
(Related: Daughter)

"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
(Related: Education, Love, Act)

"I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business."
- Jeffrey Tambor
(Related: Business, Love, Company)

"I came to New York late; I was already past 30."
- Jeffrey Tambor
(Related: Past)

"As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'"
- Jeffrey Tambor
(Related: Manager, Problems)

"And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors."
- Jeffrey Tambor
(Related: Mentors)

"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
(Related: Life, Friends, Regret, Rest)

"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
(Related: Acting)