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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in terms of Chekhov comedy. Chekhov called his plays comedies. There's always a mixture of a laugh with sadness. So the plie to the laugh is sadness.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
- Acting Classes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to New York late; I was already past 30.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Bald
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was gonna do Lear, but I'm gonna do Maura.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not know that you had to learn makeup. I just thought you went, 'Oh, I'm gonna put on some makeup.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to feel, 'I know that character.'
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
My new toy is not knowing, because it's very creative. I'm the guy who likes to get in the car and get lost.
- Nov 07, 2020