Larry David Quotes

One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm frightened of synagogue to this day.

I've inherited a Jewish sensibility and sense of humor from my parents and all those who came before me. All the Jewish comedians, character actors and writers I was exposed to also reminded me of my family in their sense of humor.

Admitting that we ourselves are bar mitzvah boys is our way of letting non-Jews as well as Jews in the audience know that everything we're doing is meant in good fun; we're having fun with our background and don't want to be taken in the wrong way.

The Jews are always up for a laugh.

There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.

Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.

I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

German Jews don't show their emotions in public.

I have a massive head of hair: it's a Jew 'fro. It's living and kicking.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.