Able Quote by Garry Shandling Download Open image “Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.” — Garry Shandling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Comedy Defense Defense mechanism Defense mechanisms Humor Mechanism Survival
I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy. — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy. — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image
With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I think if you understand your role, comedy won't create any tragedy. — Sanjeeda Sheikh Copy Share Image
If I was a very stable person, I would not have to do comedy. Nobody would have to listen to me. — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
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… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
'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… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I'm very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don't look at other moms. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. — Nas Copy Share
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
