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Garry Shandling

American Comedian

Born: Nov 29, 1949

Died: Mar 24, 2016

First Funny Love Me Think You

Related authors: George Carlin Groucho Marx Milton Berle Mitch Hedberg Robin Williams Rodney Dangerfield Steven Wright W. C. Fields

There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored. Garry Shandling

Good Me You Bored Talking Snoring Means Good Chance Chance

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

Me Problem Intimacy Tell Know Friends Really

I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are. Garry Shandling

Strong Political Goals Care Active Living Think Our Dancing Evolution Spirit About Issue Wonder Than America Personal Politically Human Bigger Ice Race Reasons Human Race Even Beliefs Thin Deeply

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

Love Made Once Minutes Hour Clocks Fifteen Fifteen Minutes Night Set

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

Love Funny Strength Me Improvise Think Interviewing Mine Someone Hosting Like Spontaneity Behind Really Desk

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. Garry Shandling

Funny You Late-Night Guest Way Would About Johnny No-One Hosts Know Talks None Curious Did Asked Much Regular Use Reason Shows Each Now Why

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

Pretty Something Tenacious Perfectionist Terms Am Getting Right

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

Me You Tell Bad Puppet Puppet Show Would Puppets Never Had He Studio Put Head Putting Stuff Know Lot Done Pitching Anyone Anything Convince Show

I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity. Garry Shandling

Life Time Quality Men My Life Everything Feel Most Quantity Than

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

First Guest First Appearance Show Appearance Tonight Tonight Show

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me. Garry Shandling

Me Jokes Better Down Write Putting Nobody Than

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

Myself Other Know Without How Ground 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. Garry Shandling

Man Judge Mother Father Men Sit Own Think Way Television Out TV Something My Own Know Him May Tuning While Used Speaking Who Fascinated Stare Why

I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much. Garry Shandling

Party Guy Very Much

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

Me Back Way Kind Would Would-Be Entirely Something Only Prevent Host Hosting New Talk Talk Show Go Were Wanting Show

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. Garry Shandling

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two. Garry Shandling

When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity. Garry Shandling

Time Good Creativity Good Time Because

I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict. Garry Shandling

Conflict Crisis React How Am Human Human Beings Interested Beings

I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out. Garry Shandling

Day Me Fight First Immediately Out Ring Exercise Boxing Said Got Passed Very Trainer Controls Breathing Whoever Started

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