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" '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. "

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" I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate. "

" I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest. "

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" I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out. "

" I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions. "

" When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff. "

" I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out. "

" Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special. "

" Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think? "

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" I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project. "

" Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name? "

" My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak? "

" I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not. "

" I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills. "

" I've always felt that the truth is in the silence. "

" My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81. "

" I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present. "

" I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there. "

" I practice safe sex - I use an airbag. "

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

" I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green. "

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

" When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity. "

" Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist. "

" The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show. "

" Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me. "

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" I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much. "

" First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on. "

" I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents' influence on me. I've talked to a therapist,; I've looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I'm a Sagittarius. Please don't make me reveal more than that. It's tough enough as it is. "

" I'd like to do more acting. "

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