Larry Grobel Has The Illness

My Dad Was In The Army. World War Ii. He Got His College Education From The Army. After World War Ii He Became An Insurance Salesman. Really, I Didn't Know My Dad Very Well. He And My Mother Split Up After The War. I Was Raised By My Maternal Grandmother And Grandfather, And By My Mother.

I Don't Like A Lot Of Things Like [iraq], I Never Did. Being In A Position Of Celebrity And Having Your Words Carry Such Unnatural Weight...i've Always Been A Bit Squeamish When It Came To That Kind Of Thing.

Responsibilities Are Relative. My Responsibility Is To A Character In A Script, To A Part I'm Playing.

Failure's Relative. I've Always Felt, Even Early On, If I Lose The Freedom To Fail, Something's Not Right About That. It's How You Treat Failure, Too. There's Something To Learn From It. I've Had Movies That Have Failed Colossally, So You Kind Of Analyze Your Failures: What Kind Of Failure Was It? A Failure Because It's Misunderstood By Others? A Failure Because You Misunderstood It Yourself?

The Fruit Falls Off The Tree. You Don't Shake It Off Before It's Ready To Fall.