Latest David Letterman Quotes from Interviews

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• All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.

  David Letterman

  Comedian, Horrible, One Thing

  "New Again: David Letterman". Interview with Pat Hackett and Kenzi Abou-Sabe, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

• My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.

  David Letterman

  America, Political, Alive

  "New Again: David Letterman". Interview with Pat Hackett and Kenzi Abou-Sabe, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

• I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.

  David Letterman

  Comedian, Mind, Arrogant

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

• I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L.A. I never do any of that.

  David Letterman

  Sex, New York, Drug Use

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

• I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

• I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

  David Letterman

  Social Values, Talent, Redeeming

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

• I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

  David Letterman

  Prison, Be Good, Shipwreck

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

• Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk.

  David Letterman

  Dark, Night, Drunk

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

• It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

  David Letterman

  Jerk, Disappointing, Admire

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

• I knew that if I woke up hung over, I couldn't do the best possible job on the show, so I had to quit. Also, I'd consumed a lot of beer for a lot of years, and I thought, That's enough. I've had my fun and I'm glad I quit.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, Fun, Beer

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

• One of the remarkable things about being 19 is that you can break open a case of warm beer at midnight and still be wide-eyed and alert for your eight-a.m. class. And that gave me the false impression that my life would always be like that.

  David Letterman

  Beer, Eight, Class

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.

• About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and just let that nervous energy surge through my body. I start talking faster and louder. My confidence comes up. It's actually a great feeling.

  David Letterman

  Air, Talking, Feelings

• Privately I think that I'm not really somebody who has a network television show. Celebrities are other people - Johnny Carson and Sylvester Stallone. I'm just a kid trying to make a living is the way I feel.

  David Letterman

  Kids, Thinking, People

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. 1984.