Larry David Quotes

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

Life is a re-discovery.