A place to go - that's what my mother always instilled in me. You need a place to go. And you're worthless unless you have a place to go.
Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
And I'd always liked improvising - whenever I've done it in the past, I felt I had a knack for it. So that was it.
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
As you know, acting is my true love.
At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
Drugs scared me.
Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
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 didn't cringe when I saw myself - I mean, sometimes I did, but it wasn't a big cringe-fest for me.
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
I just feed off the energy of the audience.
I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
I managed to put together an act that I could do, and enjoy, and kill with, on a Saturday night. But it still was difficult going on.
I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
I'd also like to point out that my new house was nearly destroyed by the Malibu fires the day before we moved in.
I'm a walking, talking enigma.
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
It's very liberating, actually - I don't have to hear my voice in every character.
Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
So it was this pattern of getting a job, then going on unemployment for a while.
Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.
There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
Women love a self-confident bald man.
You write about what you know.
Larry likes to use articles of clothing as major plot setups in his writing.
Larry carries a pad of paper and a pencil with him wherever he goes to record his ideas.
Larry David and Richard Lewis met when they were only 13 years old.
Before working together on "Seinfeld", Larry and Julia Louis-Dreyfus had already worked together during Larry's one year as a writer on "Saturday Night Live".
Since May 2005, Larry has been a contributing blogger at "The Huffington Post".
Larry's biggest acting role on "Seinfeld" was playing the voice of George Steinbrenner.
Larry David graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park. He graudated with Bachelors Degree in History and Business.
Larry is 5' 11" (1.80 m}
Larry was a writer for Saturday Night Live in 1975 for only one season. He only got one of his sketches on the air.
Larry is a fan of the New York Yankees.
Larry was the executive producer for the 2004 film Envy.
Larry was the communist neighbor in the 1987 film Radio Days.
Larry was Monroe Clark in the 1983 film Second Thoughts.
Originally, Larry David was the voice of Newman in "The Revenge". After Wayne Knight was cast in the part, he overdubbed the voice for syndication.
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