Larry David
Comedian
1947-07-02
American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer best known for cocreating Seinfeld and creating Curb Your Enthusiasm. His observational style and social discomfort humor have been highly influential in television comedy.
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Quotes by Larry David
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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
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When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
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Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
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I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
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Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
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Did Bill Clinton actually think that he could get blow jobs from a Jewish woman and there would be no consequences?
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