Garry Shandling Quotes

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage."

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

"The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behavior, interested me."

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

"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?"

"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."