In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are. David Steinberg Read Quote
Here’s the rule that I set for myself, and I believe it – even on a show like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’: the more personal you are, the wider your audience. David Steinberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I’m from Canada. I left there at 16. David Steinberg Read Quote
The thing about stand-ups is you can’t really get good unless you’re failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can’t do anything. David Steinberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
