And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.
As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'
Bob Preston was also a mentor, a great, great man - very spontaneous. He was a real theatre actor. No one gave a matinee performance like he did. He was full-bore all the time. He shone on the stage!
Cagney had physical grace. Alan Alda has it; Liev Schreiber has it. All the good actors in this cast have it. They're almost dancers in their acting.
Four days after my son, Gabriel was born, my daughter gave me a grandson, Mason.
Gordon and I run our scene every night prior to the performance, just to get the cadences. I don't think Gordon would mind my telling you that.
I came to New York late; I was already past 30.
I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.
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.
I probably have as many TV hours as I do theatre hours. When I first started doing Glengarry, Joe Mantello did say, 'You're going to have to speak up,' because I'd gotten used to not projecting for television.
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.
It led to great things. I took over the role after Hector vacated it, and played opposite Bob Preston. We had a wonderful time!
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!
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.
The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.
The night I went on for Hector Elizondo, if it hadn't been for George c. Scott, I wouldn't have made it through. He was so beautiful!
They called me that morning, and told me we had won. I said, 'Don't you mean that we were nominated?' That night, when we came offstage, Joe Mantello said some very nice things to us. It was a real lift.
They were working on Home of the Brave - deconstructing it, putting it together. I kept coming every day to watch. It seemed beautiful.
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.
Those guys, Scott and Preston, had professionalism, with a capital P. It's a bygone era. I'm getting emotional talking about them.
When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.
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Jeffrey taught theater classes at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Jeffrey got a Master of Arts at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
Jeffrey was originally only to appear in the pilot of
Jeffrey is the co-owner of Skylight Books in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.
Jeffrey used to be a teacher at Milton Katselas' Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Jeffrey and his wife, Kasia, had a son, Gabriel on the 10th December, 2004.
Jeffrey's middle name is Michael.
Jeffrey is Jewish - coincidentaly so is his
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