Garry Shandling Quotes

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Garry Shandling

Profession : Comedian

Birth : November 29, 1949

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

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Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.

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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

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Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.

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There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

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My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.

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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

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But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

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