Jeffrey Tambor Quotes

It depends on the generation and gender. The males usually go for 'Police Academy,' and the young women now in their late 20s or so go for 'Punky Brewster.' I am recognized quite frequently because they're still playing that stuff on television!

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers.

To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal.

I watch a lot of classic movies - my TV guilty pleasures are 'The Wonder Years' or the original 'MASH' show.

I would not want to play a girl who masquerades as a boy for the rest of my life.

I am glad that people have become more accepting of female characters.

My brother and I loved 'ThunderCats' and Robin Williams coming out of an egg in 'Mork & Mindy.' At the time, I thought it was funny, but looking back, it was a crazy concept!

I get labelled a ditzy, blonde reality TV person, which is fine.

I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde and then Fox.

'Fresh Off the Boat' will be syndicated. This show and these characters will live forever in the pantheon of classic family sitcoms.

I grew up watching 'The Lone Ranger.' I would get up every Saturday morning, earlier than all the other kids, to watch a black and white western with Clayton Moore that hadn't filmed a new episode since 1957.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

People stereotype female rappers a whole lot.

Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'Mork & Mindy' - it takes no effort at all to conjure, physically, the profound excitement I felt watching these shows in prime time. I remember sitting on the floor, too close to the TV, rapt.

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.

I still watch TGIF shows like 'Family Matters.'

I was really into the bimbo archetype that filled late 80s-early 90s TV when I was growing up. You know, women circling the want ads with nail polish, Rhonda Shear from 'U.S.A. Up All Night,' Peggy Bundy.

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

From being on a panel show, they always need the blonde airhead sat in a corner they can make fun of, and I'm here to go, 'No, we're not the punchline.'

Everything about the Kardashian family's public image centers around shock and dysfunction - the very image the trans people are trying to shed.

I've done bit parts on shows where I've been the fat girl or the punk rocker.

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.