Larry David
Larry David
Lawrence Gene "Larry" Davidis an American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television series Seinfeld, and he served as its head writer and executive producer from 1989 to 1996. David has subsequently gained further recognition for the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which he also created, in which he stars as a semi-fictionalized version of himself...
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth2 July 1947
CityBrooklyn, NY
divorce home light
Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
reading emotional thinking
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
cringe
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
laughing wanted
I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
salad cheese
I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
courses ifs
If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?
miserable golfers stills
If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
forget divorced
Let's not forget, I got divorced.
energy audience
I just feed off the energy of the audience.
birthday party thinking
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
comedian not-interested wanted
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
talking dying enigma
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
happiness laughter people
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
writing versions
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.