A biography for Jeffrey Tamborhasn’t been written yet.
“I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.”
“I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.”
“There are times between five and seven when this house is like a bowling alley, but it's reinspired me. My acting has gotten better because of these kids. I feel the same spirit I did when I was doing Off-Broadway.”
“Families are families are families are families.”
“Lying and art are very allied. But after you lie, you get to the truth.”
“I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keaton. I just love what he did. I love that mug.”
“What's interesting about playing Maura is that I get to use more of Jeffrey that I've ever used in any role, and I think that's the remarkable part about it and truly the most surprising part about doing this role.”
“I don't mind if someone yells a motto out of their car at me. 'No touching! No touching!' No harm is done.”
“The 'Hey now's' are delivered as people pass me. As I just get near ear range, I hear, 'Hey now!' and that's very funny.”
“You see kids walking to the bus, and they're watching product on their phones. I'm positive that my grandkids and their grandkids are going to put on a pair of glasses and watch something.”
“When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'”
“I can only speak for me... but in my life, I find that, in sobriety, I feel much more, and I have much more depth. I also feel - not to segue, but as being a parent of five kids, I can bring much more to my acting, and so I'm all about anything that gives you more feeling and more depth.”
“The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.”
“I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.”
“I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're so nimble; they picked us up two weeks after we premiered, and their whole attitude is, 'Go, go, go, go,' so I'm very, very impressed.”
“Every family has that secret. Every family has that thing where you go, 'Shhh, shhh, shhh.'”
“This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.”
“When I was a kid, we got up, we walked a number of paces to a television, turned it on, and changed channels.”
“You want to feel, 'I know that character.'”
“When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'”