Quotes by David Steinberg - Page 1

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.
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Woody
Allen
Bruce
Influences
Lenny
Woody Allen
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Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
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Underrated
Silences
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We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious.
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Hilarious
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You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.
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Comedian
Stable
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When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.
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Joyful
Steve
Steve Martin
Talks
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I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.
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Particular
Smarter
Ethnic
Group
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Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
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Jazz
Comedians
Jazz Musicians
Musicians
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I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
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Humor
Comedy
Dissect
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A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.
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Spontaneous
Anything Else
Interview
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The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
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Odd
Odd Thing
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I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
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Notes
Paid
Persistence
Took
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And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.
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Unemployed
Student
Emotional Thing
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Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
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Eighty
Hundred
Lawyer
Sucks
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My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
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Canada
Rabbi
Synagogue
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When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
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Comedian
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Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
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Comedian
Outsiders
Perspective
Comics
Same Time
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Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.
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Beneficial
Careers
Agent
Mutually
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The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
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Comedian
Documentary
Worst Thing
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Here's the rule that I set for myself, and I believe it - even on a show like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm': the more personal you are, the wider your audience.
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Curb
Enthusiasm
Myself Believe I Believe
Wider
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In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
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Looking Back
Time Looking Back Looking
Contemporaries
Influenced
Time Period
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I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
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Comedian
Good Childhood
Theory
Bank
Lousy
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I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
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Comedy
Decent
Film School
Give Me
New Friends
Notes
Vehicle
Chris
Feature
La
Met
Script
York
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The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.
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Improvisation
Helps
Instrument
Interesting Thing
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On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.
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Curb
Enthusiasm
Always Your Me
Analyze
Me Always Your
Reminds
Talmud
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The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.
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East
East Coast
Fantasy
Hollywood
Me Grow People
Grow Up
Occurred
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I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
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Broadway
Columbia
Columbia University
Diana
Reparations
Slave
Tyson
University
Jewish
Cast
Directing
Offered
Starred
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The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
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Comedian
Yiddish
Always Your Know
Imbecile
The One Thing
Troubles
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The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
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Failing
Rejection
Stand Up Comedy
Good People Anything
Tremendous
Large Number
Reserve
Tremendous Amount
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