Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

Nothing is burdensome as a secret.

Everybody has secrets.

I think that any time you share a secret, you're a little nervous about people's reaction to it.

I hope they don't reveal everything they know about me.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.