I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh… — David Mandel Be confident Copy Share Image
What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep. — David Mandel Insult Copy Share Image
As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and… — David Mandel Digging Copy Share Image
I'd like to give every member of our cast a best supporting comedy Emmy. — David Mandel Casts Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American… — David Mandel American war Copy Share Image
I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida… — David Mandel Able Copy Share Image
I think the fact that they all served under her as a president is a strong pull. Here's a perfect example: George… — David Mandel Careers Copy Share Image
I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw… — David Mandel Bits Copy Share Image
Here's one of the great things, and I may have said this somewhere, so forgive me. Curb ideas are not Veep ideas.… — David Mandel Curb Copy Share Image
I think it's a fun thing, and perhaps maybe very so slightly as an American, it's a slightly different thing that they… — David Mandel Brits Copy Share Image
It's gratifying that people are watching that [Veep] intently and that hard. So it's been really nice and it's been really fun. — David Mandel Fun Copy Share Image
My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the… — David Mandel Earth Copy Share Image
That is what we have been feinting towards for a year of our lives: pretending like it was going to happen, acting… — David Mandel Acting Copy Share Image
There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents. Especially in this day and age where… — David Mandel Age Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history. — David Mandel Bits Copy Share Image
One of the cool things, obviously there's 'Scandal,' 'House of Cards,' there was 'West Wing.' Other than that Jack Lemmon/James Garner movie… — David Mandel Agents Copy Share Image
I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s… — David Mandel Fans Copy Share Image
If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I… — David Mandel Asking Copy Share Image
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more… — David Mandel Biographies Copy Share Image
I saw [Ronald] Reagan. I've watched Jimmy Carter and his selflessness, getting involved in things like votes in African countries, but also… — David Mandel Carter Copy Share Image
Veep is my priority. Veep is my home, but I have nothing but obviously, good thoughts and really want Curb to be… — David Mandel Answers Copy Share Image
I'm certainly never going to say that someone is prettier than Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but someone who would make her crazy for being… — David Mandel Crazy Copy Share Image
I do think that's one of the strengths of the show is every year there's sort of the giant rock gets thrown… — David Mandel Dna Copy Share Image