American - Actor | July 8, 1944 -
You want to feel, 'I know that character.'
Jeffrey Tambor
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I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.
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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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I grew up in San Fransisco in a very liberal community. My environment was very, very open and very liberal.
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I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.
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There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.
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The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.
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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.
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When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.
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We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.
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I really got used to playing Maura.
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We have been treated gorgeously by Amazon.
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