Larry David
American comedian, writer and actor
Lawrence Gene David (born July 2, 1947) is an American comedian, writer, actor, director, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television series Seinfeld, of which David was the head writer and executive producer for the first seven seasons. David gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he created and stars in as a semi-fictionalized version of himself.
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Quotes
edit- I like how if you criticize the war you don't support the troops. You're the ones sending them over to die, so how is it I don’t support them? If the army was made up of child molesters, then I'd support them. If we went to an all child molester army, I would be their biggest supporter. "Please don't bring the troops home. Stay the course. Keep them there a long time." But they're not child molesters. And they're not the Twins, that’s for sure. Where are the Twins? Send in the Twins. I'd like to hear that scene. "Jenna, Barbara... Daddy and I have talked it over and we want you to go fight in Iraq." …Ah, what's the use?
- June 28, 2005 [1]
- If every student was like me in college, we'd still be in Vietnam.
- September 13, 2005 [2]
- One thing about Hitler that I admire is that he wouldn't take any shit from magicians."[3] (Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO special)
- Let me tell you something; I do hate myself, but it has nothing to do with being Jewish. (When accused of being a self-loathing Jew; Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 2, Episode 3, "Trick or Treat")
- (on not going to his high school prom) I wasn't aware of the prom. I had no idea that it was even going on, not that I would have gone. It's not the kind of thing that would ever occur to me. You would think I would have heard about it in school, but I didn't. (Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Book)
- Pretty...pretty...pretty......pretty.....pretty good. (Curb Your Enthusiasm, passim)
- This is a sad day for the Emmy's. It is, however, a good day for Larry David. I imagine the wife will be forthcoming tonight. (Accepting an Emmy Award)
- (Asked if he believes in miracles) I believe that every erection is a miracle. (Curb Season 7, Episode 6 "The Bare Midriff").
- I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
- I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.
- When Woody Allen asked him to appear in a film.
- I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.
- Of acting in Woody Allen's film.
- Listen, this is crazy. I look like I'm 75 years old. Nobody wants to watch an old man being funny. That's just a fact. No one wants to see this old man on TV.
- When his show went onto a high definition channel.
2010s
edit- A lot of sexual harassment stuff in the news, and I couldn't help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators, not all, but many of them are Jews
Quotes about Larry David
edit- I even found myself doing a routine on Saturday Night Live with my impersonator Larry David, who did Bernie Sanders better than I did.
- Bernie Sanders Our Revolution (2016)