"I think [the character Maura is] a better parent now than she was as Mort ... the lesson of being authentic and going for freedom generates a very good thing in the kids." 

"My acting teacher said, 'Act as if your life depends on it.' And here, lives are dependent on this." 

"There is phobia, there is hatred, there is absolute danger. We hear about it all the time. There's suicide." 

"I would say that I had a nervosity and an insistent self-tapping on my shoulder at all time ... When I come out to my eldest daughter [in the show], I was shaking. I was throw-up nervous ..."

"Transparent" showrunner Jill Soloway: "Maura unleashes this beautiful thing in [Jeffrey]. He's always reminded me of my parents, just being Jewy, soft, funny, sweet, vulnerable." 

Tambor with TheWrap Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman

"The subject matter [of 'Transparent'] needs light and love and understanding."

"Did I know what I was getting into? You don't really think that way. But I remember many times talking to Jill. We'd be in the middle of a scene, and I would say, 'Oh, this is so big.'"