Quotes from Jeffrey Tambor

I grew up in San Fransisco in a very liberal community. My environment was very, very open and very liberal.

They're my instructors, and every parent will understand that.

I almost should have a shirt made: 'Jill Soloway has changed my life...' Not only changed my life with the opportunity to play Maura, but the opportunity and the responsibility of playing Maura.

I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

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

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.

When I was a kid, we got up, we walked a number of paces to a television, turned it on, and changed channels.

There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspired me. My acting has gotten better because of these kids. I feel the same spirit I did when I was doing Off-Broadway.

There was one television in the living room, and we all sat around on Sundays and watched Ed Sullivan.

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.

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.

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.

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

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

'Attaboys' help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It's so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence.

I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

I've done 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' I've done... oh, it's not called 'Rapunzel' anymore. 'Tangled', that's it. Those are both huge.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

If you see 'Pollock,' I weighed almost 270 pounds.

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.

Love New York Presbyterian. I will do anything for them.

I think shows being sent out this way - pressing a button and 10 episodes can go out to the U.S.A., and the U.K. and Germany, it's very cool.

There are secrets in families. That is the definition of a family.

I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.