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David Steinberg Quotes

Canadian - Comedian | August 9, 1942 -

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

Job Play First Kid Jewish Slave

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

You Know Always Stage Audience Just

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

School New York Me Writing Comedy

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

People Me Think Grow Doing You

We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious.

David Steinberg

Side Hilarious Other Guys Were

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

David Steinberg

New York Lawyer Week You Sometimes

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

David Steinberg

Law Student Become Emotional Leave

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

David Steinberg

Persistence Kind Notes Paid Off

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

Relationship Help You Got Going

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

Good Marriage Money Childhood You

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

Music Interesting You Now Out Up

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

David Steinberg

Father Canada Little Left Rabbi Had

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