“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.”Larry David
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American - Comedian & Writer|July 2, 1947

50 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMEDIAN & WRITER
Read 50 of the funniest Larry David quotes on comedy, honesty, anxiety, golf and life's little annoyances from the co-creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
“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.”Larry David
“Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.”Larry David
“I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.”Larry David
“Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.”Larry David
“Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, "Man Gets Married!"Larry David
“I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, "Hey, I've still got it."Larry David
“I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.”Larry David
“I don't like to make a big splash anyway.”Larry David
“If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable, but not as miserable.”Larry David
“I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not a Golf Anonymous.”Larry David
“Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.”Larry David
“I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.”Larry David
“Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea.”Larry David
“Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer.”Larry David
“The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.”Larry David
“I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.”Larry David
“All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.”Larry David
“I'm still driving a Prius, yeah.”Larry David
“My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.”Larry David
“When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street.”Larry David
“People don't yell nasty things at actors; they let them continue.”Larry David
“In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfil my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.”Larry David
“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.”Larry David
“Women love a self-confident bald man.”Larry David
“I believe in something.”Larry David