A biography for Larry Davidhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.”
“I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.”
“At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.”
“It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.”
“I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.”
“Drugs scared me.”
“It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.”
“Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.”
“I'm a walking, talking enigma.”
“Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.”
“I don't like to make a big splash anyway.”
“Obviously comedic styles do change.”
“I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.”
“I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.”
“My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.”
“No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.”
“When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.”
“It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.”
“I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.”