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Quotes from Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 — Jerry Seinfeld

born 1954 United States

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I still think everything has its life cycle and if you respect it, people enjoy it longer.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

Never try and make a comedian laugh with one of his own jokes.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

I would say that I am 90% serious in my day. Comedy is no joke.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

Newman would be my favorite supporting character. I mean, when I got to have a real evil nemesis like Superman would have, that was a dream come true for me.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

Working with the [Seinfeld] cast was pure heaven for me. We were as well suited to each other as it seems when you watch the show.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

[Larry and I] never obsess over anything that isn't mundane.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

The only line I quote from [Seinfeld] [...] is "If you're one of us, you'll take a bite." [...] Sometimes I'll quote Newman in flames screaming "Oh the humanity."

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

When I started out in comedy in the 70s, if you didn't do clean humor you weren't getting on TV, so I started doing that so I could be on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. And then when I saw what other people were doing, I just always wanted to be a little different.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

We improvised virtually nothing [on Seinfeld], as a matter of fact. That's how good the actors were, that it sometimes seems like they are improvising. But we also knew each other so well that we knew exactly what sentences to put in their mouths that would seem natural.

Reddit "Ask Me Anything" #1 (2014)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jerry Seinfeld (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.