Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

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

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

I'm scared of audiences.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I've never been good at improvising.

In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

Acting scares me.

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

I was never really comfortable doing comedy.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.

Nick can get up on stage and just wing it, whereas I would have to be taken to a mental institution.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.