Garry Shandling Quotes
24 quotations by 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. | ![]() |
![]() | The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | Rip as we know is vastly experienced and funnier than I think anyone knew. The show really reveals him to be a brilliant comedic actor. | ![]() |
![]() | My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me. | ![]() |
![]() | My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81. | ![]() |
![]() | It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside. | ![]() |
![]() | I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it. | ![]() |
![]() | 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 think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green. | ![]() |
![]() | I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate. | ![]() |
![]() | I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. | ![]() |
![]() | 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 don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present. | ![]() |
![]() | I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on. | ![]() |
![]() | Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | 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? | ![]() |