Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

I liked 'Brighton Beach Memoirs,' which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.

I'm very proud of my New York debut. I played Oscar Wilde in 'Gross Indecency' off Broadway in about 1997. And I was very proud of my Broadway debut in 'The Iceman Cometh.'

My goal was always to get better roles, and in my case, performing on stage really led to great opportunities. My breakthrough came when I did Calder Willingham's 'End as a Man' on stage and was spotted by Max Arnow, who'd been the casting chief for Columbia.

I was Danny Zuko in 'Grease,' and I was in the musical 'Sweet Charity' and then in the musical 'On the Twentieth Century.' They were great. I mean, singing isn't really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it.

I really only started doing film in '97. I mean, before then, I just pretty much did theater.