Larry David is an American Emmy Award-winning actor, film writer, comic, manufacturer and movie director. He was basically the creator behind Seinfeld, main writer and executive manufacturer. David likewise made sporadic appearances in the series, and was to name a few points, the voice of the New York Yankees boss George Steinbrenner. In 2000 he produced the TV series No factor for exhilaration, which won the Golden Globe in 2003 for ideal tv comedy.
David, that previously worked as a stand-up comedian, was the scriptwriter for ABC Fridays from 1980 to 1982, and also writer for NBC's preferred Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 1984 to 1985. While benefiting SNL, David managed just to obtain one of their acts on the program. Discouraged by the scenario, he dropped in the middle of a season of the program. For economic factors, he regretted later on in this choice, he showed up the next day and acted like absolutely nothing had occurred. David met a few of his future Seinfeld stars in their very early years as a sketch-writer, he collaborated with Michael Richards (Kramer) in Fridays as well as met Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine) under SNL video footage.
Our collection contains 42 quotes who is written / told by Larry.
"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"
"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"
"The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore"
"Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror"
"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"
"Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman"
"Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised"
"I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian"
"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized"
"I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently"
"I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish"
"I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after"
"I just feed off the energy of the audience"
"I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab"
"I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am"
"I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me"
"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"
"Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish"
"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"
"Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious"
"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"
"Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy"
"Drugs scared me"
"At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me"
"Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough"
"And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me"
"Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it"
"You write about what you know"
"Women love a self-confident bald man"
"When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom"
"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"
"Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage"
"It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often"
"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"
"It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas"
"In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year"
"If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny"
"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"
"I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter"
"I'm a walking, talking enigma"
"I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there"
"I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out"
