Quotes By Larry David

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

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

Most people think I'm immodest.

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

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

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

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.

I am not honest.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

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

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

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

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

I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

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

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

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

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.

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

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

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 I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.