David Kirsch Quotes

'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.

Two is company; three is fifty bucks.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

When I go out for dinner with friends, we all put our phones aside and the first person to pick up their phone has to pay the bill.

The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.

When the audience reacts all together, it's genius. The audience is its own being in a way. It's a weird, amorphous beast that is also somehow a golden emperor that is also somehow every adult you've ever come across in your life who doesn't approve of you - all in one place.

Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you're there for a couple months, you're just the cool guy. I think I'm just the cool guy.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.

I love doing things people don't expect. The fans will be well fed.

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.