Garry Shandling Quotes

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Garry Shandling

Profession : Comedian

Birth : November 29, 1949

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.

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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.

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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.

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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

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I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

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The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

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You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

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I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

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I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.

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When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.

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I'd like to do more acting.

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