Larry David Quotes

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

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

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

“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.”

“You write about what you know.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear: mainstream comedy.”

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

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

“I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.”

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

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

“I have reservations about everything I do.”

“Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.”

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

“I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.”

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

“You know, I'm really not that bright.”

“I'm cranky.”

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

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