Garry Shandling Quotes

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

Dating, Woman, Unaware

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

Dating, Love, Work

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

Love, Night, Made

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

Spiritual, Basketball, Philosophy

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

Men, Mother, Judge

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

Nature, Happiest

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling

Feeling, Real, Friends

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

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

Funny, Time, She

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

Show, Guy, Likes

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

Life, Funny, Single

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, Two

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

Pretty, Getting, Tenacious

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

Actor, Present, Ground

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

Life, Woman, Real

I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
Garry Shandling

Sex, Practice, Safe

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

Great, Start, Green

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

Business, Fear, Failure

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.
Garry Shandling

Funny, Fun, Hard

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

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
Garry Shandling

Needs, Except, Express

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

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
Garry Shandling

Hair, Head, Matters

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

Show, Appearance, Tonight

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

Friends, Problem, Tell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 29, 1949

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