Quotes By Larry David

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

Most people think I'm immodest.

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.

Obviously comedic styles do change.

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.

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 one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

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

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

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

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.

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

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

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.