Garry Shandling Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Failure, Emotional, Thinking

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Mother, Father, Men

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• Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.

  Garry Shandling

  Baby, Nice, Men

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

  Garry Shandling

  Television, Firsts, Comedy

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• I have such poor vision I can date anybody.

  Garry Shandling

  Funny, Dating, Vision

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Thinking, Comedy, Spontaneity

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Done, Puppets, Pitching

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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

  Garry Shandling

  Valentines Day, Single, Funny Love

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Would Be, Way, Comedy

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

  Garry Shandling

  Basketball, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Kids, Single Life, Would Be

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Thinking, Bed, Trouble

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

  Garry Shandling

  Beauty, Comedy, Perfectionist

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

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  Guy, Likes, Firsts

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over the Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

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  Night, Use, Guests

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• 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 behaviour, interested me.

  Garry Shandling

  Animal, Behaviour, Reason

  "Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  Garry Shandling

  Sex, Practice, Safety

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• 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.

  Garry Shandling

  Real, Thinking, Bed

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• 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.

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  Fun, Thinking, Serious

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

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  Actors, Know How, Knows

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over the Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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

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  Thinking, Looks, Green

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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

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  Guests, Firsts, Tonight

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