Garry Shandling Quotes

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

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

"I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right."

"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."

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

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

"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."

"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?"

"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."

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

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

"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 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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."