American - Actor | July 8, 1944 -
I had a theater that was right across the street from me, and I would just go there after school and just hang out and watch... and everything seemed calmer there and nicer there and warmer there.
Jeffrey Tambor
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I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.
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I think Maura'is funnier than I am, wittier than I am, more intelligent than I am, and I think she's just floating me at this point.
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Love New York Presbyterian. I will do anything for them.
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There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.
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I'm a Jewish son of Russian-Hungarian heritage parents. Humor was very important. My whole goal was to make my parents laugh. And my whole strategy as a young man was, if I could make them laugh, I could have enough time to figure out what to do next.
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When I was young kid, I used to watch Jack Benny, and I thought the minimal aspect of what he did was revelatory. I loved Jack Benny.
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The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I do prepare a lot. I'm a big believer in that.
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We all know about secrets - to have that pressure of something you can't reveal. That's universal: 'Am I safe? Am I gonna be OK? Will my family still love and respect me?'
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You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.
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The shedding of any clothes, when you're 70 years old, is tricky.
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My wife thought I was Vincent Schiavelli, and we married.
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