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Jeffrey Tambor

"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."

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"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award."

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"I always had to keep improving my skills in order to remain competitive and keep winning."

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Akiroq Brost

"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."

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Akiroq Brost

"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."

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Akiroq Brost

"The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing."

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Akiroq Brost

"For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning."

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Akiroq Brost

"I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning."

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Akiroq Brost

"Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it."

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"Winning is everything in Hollywood."

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Akiroq Brost

"Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995."

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Jeffrey Tambor
"When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle."

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Jeffrey Tambor
"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!"

Education

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Jeffrey Tambor
"I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business."

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Jeffrey Tambor
"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."

Acting

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Jeffrey Tambor
"As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'"

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Jeffrey Tambor
"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."

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Jeffrey Tambor
"I came to New York late; I was already past 30."

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Jeffrey Tambor
"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."

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Jeffrey Tambor
"And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors."

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Jeffrey Tambor
"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."

Life

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