Top 42 David Steinberg Quotes
#1. David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.
Dave Foley
#2. 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.
David Steinberg
#3. The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
Mary Ellen Chase
#4. Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#5. It's important to note that you don't have to earn money from all of your interests. If you just dive in and pursue what you enjoy, you may be surprised to find out which interests help you generate income and which don't.
Steve Pavlina
#7. My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
David Steinberg
#8. And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.
David Steinberg
#9. 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.
David Steinberg
#10. 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.
David Steinberg
#11. When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
David Steinberg
#12. The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
Jeremy Northam
#13. I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
David Steinberg
#14. 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.
David Steinberg
#15. Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
David Steinberg
#16. I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.
David Steinberg
#17. I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
David Steinberg
#18. 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.
David Steinberg
#19. 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.
David Steinberg
#20. You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.
David Steinberg
#21. The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.
Stephen King
#22. 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.
David Steinberg
#23. 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.
David Steinberg
#24. When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.
David Steinberg
#25. certainty makes you beautiful and uncertainty makes you dutiful.
Rajesh Walecha
#26. I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
Val Kilmer
#28. 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.
David Steinberg
#29. It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#30. Heat, dirt, blood, death. Life is made of these things.
Erica Cameron
#31. Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
David Steinberg
#32. I love it when people send me body parts.
Kesha
#33. I'm someone who can fall in love at the drop of the hat. My parents raised me to be very accepting of other people, so because of that, I feel like I might be overly accepting of girls. If a girl shows any interest, I'm like, 'Yes! I love you, you're amazing!'
Josh Hutcherson
#34. 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.
David Steinberg
#35. 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.
David Steinberg
#38. Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
David Steinberg
#39. 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.
David Steinberg
#40. A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.
David Steinberg
#41. When cultivating your garden, keep the soil healthy with encroachers. The most redolent flowers grow over graves.
Bauvard
#42. The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
David Steinberg
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