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Garry Shandling

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.

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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ I love it because it’s funny and because I realize that I’m happier than Larry David.

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I enjoy ‘The Apprentice’ and the one that’s called ‘Take My Life’ and the other one called ‘Stop Hitting Me.’

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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we’ve got until 2014. I’m an optimist.

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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you’re actually there, because there’s no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can’t even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

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My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, ‘What I’d really like to do is see if I can write comedy.’ … I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn’t know anybody; didn’t know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.

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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There’s no time to think.

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I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents’ influence on me. I’ve talked to a therapist,; I’ve looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I’m a Sagittarius. Please don’t make me reveal more than that. It’s tough enough as it is.

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When I give notes on a script, I say, ‘Guys, I may drift, but it’s part of the process.’ So I’m aware that I’m drifting, but I’m grabbing a lot of stuff.

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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn’t even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one’s mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I’m going in is eventually, you won’t know if it’s a joke or not.

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Dogs are not people. Be leery of any woman who refers to her dogs as her ‘kids,’ because you’ll only end up paying for their schooling.

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