Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.