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Garry Shandling Quotes

Total quotes: 53
“Gossip is a sin.”
— Garry Shandling, What I've Learned: Garry Shandling
Tagged: Gossip, Sin
“Intellect without heart scares me.”
— Garry Shandling, What I've Learned: Garry Shandling
Tagged: Intellect, heart
“Love is not enough to save a relationship.”
— Garry Shandling, What I've Learned: Garry Shandling
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“My mother did the best she could. Sorry.”
— Garry Shandling, What I've Learned: Garry Shandling
Tagged: mothers
“Nothing can succeed and last without teamwork.”
— Garry Shandling, What I've Learned: Garry Shandling
Tagged: Teamwork
“As they strapped the oxygen mask to my face, I lifted it up and said, 'Don't trim my hair too short in the back.’ It's a cliche, but there's a very thin line between comedy and tragedy. I know that line in my professional life. I'm not so sure I know it in my personal life.”
— Garry Shandling, Garry Shandling Goes Dark
Tagged: comedy, Tragedy
“To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.”
— Garry Shandling, How Heartbreak Helped Garry Shandling Find His Comedic Voice
Tagged: Stand-Up Comedy, comedy, Comedians
“I remember when I was a struggling comic appearing for the first time in Las Vegas. Don Rickles came in to watch the new guy. Afterward, he came backstage, and I asked him if he thought I was funny. He said, ‘You know when you're funny. You don't have to ask.’ And he was right.”
— Garry Shandling, What I've Learned: Garry Shandling
Tagged: Las Vegas, Don Rickles, Comedians
“My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things—I mean this seriously—a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?”
— Garry Shandling, How Heartbreak Helped Garry Shandling Find His Comedic Voice
Tagged: Tonight Show
“I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?”
— Garry Shandling, Fun Facts About Our Incredible World!
“My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.'...I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.”
— Garry Shandling, How Heartbreak Helped Garry Shandling Find His Comedic Voice
Tagged: Los Angeles
“I am afraid of many things, but I force myself to do them. I went to Magic Mountain, and I looked at the bungee jump and I thought, This is the devil's work. I did think for a moment, I should do it, it will make me more courageous. But no. There's a line. The roller coasters scare me, too. As does dating. It's those three things: bungee jumping, roller coasters and dating. And the idea of dating with my hands up in the air is the ultimate frightening experience.'”
— Garry Shandling, Garry Shandling Goes Dark
Tagged: Magic Mountain, Dating
“I had a car accident when I was twenty-seven in which I was nearly killed. I had a vivid near-death experience that involved a voice asking, ‘Do you want to continue leading Garry Shandling's life?’ Without thinking, I said, ‘Yes.’ Since then, I've been stuck living in the physical world while knowing, without a doubt, that there's something much more meaningful within it all. That realization is what drives my life and work.”
— Garry Shandling, What I've Learned: Garry Shandling
Tagged: Car Accidents
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