Everyone has to do the same work as actors - I teach acting. But there are those people who come on, and there's just something about them in and above themselves that has to do with chemistry and electricity - this aura about them. And that's unmistakable. Do I have that? Yeah, I think I have that.
Jeffrey TamborI don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.
Jeffrey TamborJoe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'
Jeffrey TamborWhen I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And I remember the mother saying, tell Jeffrey to go home. And I said to the girl, I said, why? She goes, my mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.
Jeffrey TamborThe Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.
Jeffrey TamborThe most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the cufflinks, the whole nine yards - he came at me, and I thought I was going to get nailed. But he literally came up to me and just gave me a hug and said, "Thank you for introducing me to a subject that I didn't know anything about." In those moments it always clicks for me what we're doing here.
Jeffrey Tambor