Top 154 Quotes & Sayings by Larry David

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Lawrence Gene David is an American comedian, writer, actor, director, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television sitcom Seinfeld, on which David was head writer and executive producer for the first seven seasons. He gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. He has written or co-written the stories of every episode since its pilot episode in 1999.

American - Actor | Born: July 2, 1947

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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

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Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

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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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I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

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I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

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When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

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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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People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

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I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

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There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

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I have reservations about everything I do.

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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 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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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

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Women love a self-confident bald man.

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Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.

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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'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

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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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Drugs scared me.

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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.

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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 still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

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I think Michael Moore is a hero.

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The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

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Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

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I just feed off the energy of the audience.

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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

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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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My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

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Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

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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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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

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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 don't like to make a big splash anyway.

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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

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Top 154 Quotes & Sayings by Larry David

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