Quotes by Garry Shandling

About Garry Shandling:

Garry Emmanuel Shandling is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for his work in It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Larry Sanders Show.
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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.

Garry Shandling

I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

Garry Shandling

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

Garry Shandling

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.

Garry Shandling

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

Garry Shandling

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

Garry Shandling

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.

Garry Shandling

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

Garry Shandling

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.

Garry Shandling

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.

Garry Shandling

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.

Garry Shandling

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.

Garry Shandling

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.

Garry Shandling

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

Garry Shandling

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 ...

Garry Shandling

'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.

Garry Shandling

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

Garry Shandling

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 c...

Garry Shandling

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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Author Bio

  • NameGarry Shandling
  • DescriptionAmerican comedian
  • BornNovember 29, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Film Producer
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award