This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.
JERRY SEINFELDMost people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it’s a relic.
More Jerry Seinfeld Quotes
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Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with.
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The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I’m like Grace Jones to them. “This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where’s the wife jokes, where’s the fat jokes?”
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I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you’ll hit it.
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If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don’t you ever see anyone take one to the beach?
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When you’ve been in the business 5-years, as a person, it’s like you’re 5-years old – like a child. 10-years and you’re 10-years old, 20… Etcetera. That’s how I measure maturity in this industry.
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There’s more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.
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I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.
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Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.
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Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it’s a relic.
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I can’t go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?
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If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.
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The best revenge is living well.
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See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don’t know how to hold the reservation and that’s really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.
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[I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody who’s … normal … I’m not curious, I’m not interested.
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That’s why breakups take two or three times- to build up immunity.
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