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Daily Inspiration Quote by Larry David

"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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Larry David’s dismissal is a tidy little act of misdirection: he’s talking about feelings by insisting no one should talk about feelings. The line lands because it weaponizes self-boredom as a form of control. In a culture that rewards confessionals and personal branding, David’s posture is almost contrarian performance art: the anti-memoir, the anti-trauma dump, the anti-“let me tell you my truth” monologue. He’s not claiming he lacks emotions; he’s claiming the public doesn’t deserve the access, and he doesn’t owe the labor of translating inner life into consumable content.

The subtext is classic David: emotional privacy as comedy, not as virtue. By saying his emotional state isn’t even interesting to him, he sketches the persona we know from Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm - a man so allergic to sentimentality that he treats introspection like small talk with a stranger. It’s funny because it’s extreme and because it carries a faint accusation: if you’re fascinated by my feelings, maybe you’re the weird one.

Context matters: David is an architect of observational humor that thrives on external friction - social rules, petty grievances, micro-ethical crises. His work converts discomfort into plot, not into catharsis. So this isn’t anti-emotion so much as anti-genre. He’s rejecting the idea that authenticity has to be narrated to be real, and he’s doing it with the driest possible flex: making emotional withholding sound like common sense.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
David, Larry. (n.d.). I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-anyone-really-is-interested-in-32444/

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David, Larry. "I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-anyone-really-is-interested-in-32444/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-anyone-really-is-interested-in-32444/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Larry David

Larry David (born July 2, 1947) is a Actor from USA.

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