Jeffrey Tambor

(6 votes)   When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

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(7 votes)   And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

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(7 votes)   As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

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(7 votes)   Gordon and I run our scene every night prior to the performance, just to get the cadences. I don't think Gordon would mind my telling you that.

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(7 votes)   I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

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

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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

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(7 votes)   They were working on Home of the Brave - deconstructing it, putting it together. I kept coming every day to watch. It seemed beautiful.

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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   Those guys, Scott and Preston, had professionalism, with a capital P. It's a bygone era. I'm getting emotional talking about them.

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