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Jeffrey Tambor

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 8, 1944

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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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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I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

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When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'

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When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

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I can only speak for me... but in my life, I find that, in sobriety, I feel much more, and I have much more depth. I also feel - not to segue, but as being a parent of five kids, I can bring much more to my acting, and so I'm all about anything that gives you more feeling and more depth.

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I thought I was gonna do Lear, but I'm gonna do Maura.

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I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

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I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.

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I did not know that you had to learn makeup. I just thought you went, 'Oh, I'm gonna put on some makeup.'

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You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

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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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You just put your head down and do the work.

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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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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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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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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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