Larry David
TeSi I-I-
Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Lawrence Gene David
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Birth Date July 2, 1947
Ethnicity Jewish
Overview Ashkenazi
Nationality American
Career Comedian, writer, actor, director, television producer
Color Season Soft Summer
Notes and Motifs
Delta nerd
TeSi I-I- Unseelie
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David: "If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny."
David: "Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself."
David: "I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic."
David: "I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh."
David: "I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed."
David: "Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over."
David: "I don't have many friends."
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. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that."
David: "I don't like people cleaning my room."
David: "There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation."
David: "I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people."
David: "Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens."
David: "Most people think I'm immodest."
David: "I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it."
David: "I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself."
David: "When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless."
David: "I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood."
David: "I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation."
David: "Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough."
David: "There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out."
David: "Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish."
David: "I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am."
David: "I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out."