124 Quotes by Garry Shandling

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

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

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

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

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

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

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.