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You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.
- David Steinberg
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I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
- David Steinberg
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My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
- David Steinberg
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The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.
- David Steinberg
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Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.
- David Steinberg
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I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
- David Steinberg
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And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.
- David Steinberg
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We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious.
- David Steinberg
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The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
- David Steinberg
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I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
- David Steinberg
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The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.
- David Steinberg
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Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
- David Steinberg
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I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
- David Steinberg
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Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
- David Steinberg
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I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
- David Steinberg
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