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Most would see turning 70 years aged a large milestone. Not Jerry Seinfeld, who turned nan large 7-0 connected Monday. In fact, he has zero liking successful celebrating … thing … ever.
"I don't really person immoderate liking successful it," he told Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb astir his day during an quality connected "Today pinch Hoda and Jenna" past week. "You cognize what it is? It's ‘Boy, I could really unrecorded pinch a batch little stuff.' Things, people, activities. I’m not doing thing anymore. We're going to essentialize now. I for illustration to essentialize, I for illustration to purify, I for illustration to streamline. This is wherever life gets better, not adding more. Add less."
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Jerry Seinfeld turned 70 connected April 29. (Manny Carabel/Getty Images)
That lackadaisical, yet intentional cognition towards life's regular wins and losses is precisely what has earned nan stand-up comedian world nickname and massive success passim his astir 50-year-long career.
However, contempt his galore accolades and achievements, nan New York City autochthonal - who is making his directorial debut successful nan upcoming Netflix movie "Unfrosted" - precocious admitted that he often wrestles pinch a "darkening mood."
"Irrespective of circumstance, I conscionable don't consciousness good," Seinfeld said during a caller quality connected "In Depth pinch Graham Bensinger." "Sometimes I conscionable don't consciousness good. And, nan champion measurement to get retired of it for maine is work. Work is nan champion antidote. That's why I activity truthful much, because . . . for immoderate reason, you consciousness for illustration you're not wasting time."
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Jerry Seinfeld admitted that sometimes he conscionable doesn't "feel good" and often wrestles pinch a "darkening mood." (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
"I realized this inclination to get depressed, I would ne'er want to not person that if I would suffer nan imaginative gift that came pinch it. It's portion of it. It's astir apt [an] overactive brain. I wouldn't telephone it existent depression. I don't cognize what nan connection for it is. . . . The temper darkens. I get a darkening mood. And I want to get retired of it," he said.
From his critically acclaimed deed TV shows "Seinfeld" and "Comedians successful Cars Getting Coffee" (for which Seinfeld earned a full of 20 Emmy nominations) to being named nan 12th-greatest stand-up comedian of each clip by Comedy Central, Seinfeld has undoubtedly kept himself busy. But he's still not impressed.
The formed of "Seinfeld" won for Outstanding Comedy Series connected September 19, 1993. (Scott Flynn/AFP)
Instead, he tends to disregard nan extracurricular sound and springiness his power to what really matters successful life: bettering himself.
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"Everything that you're worried astir is going to beryllium gone for illustration that," he told Bensinger. "The group that are criticizing you – they're going to beryllium gone, you're going to beryllium gone. All this hand-wringing interest and interest over, ‘How are group viewing me?’ and, ‘Someone said thing bad astir me,’ and you get truthful upset astir it, is wasted clip and energy."
"Marcus Aurelius [Roman philosopher] says your only attraction should beryllium connected getting amended astatine what you're doing. Focus connected what you're doing. Get amended astatine what you're doing," he added. "Everything other is simply a complete discarded of time. So I person this movie coming retired successful astir a month. I americium truthful excited to publication nan worst reviews."
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Aside from nan occasional "darkening mood," Seinfeld – who has 3 big children pinch his woman of astir 25 years, Jessica – could not beryllium much contented pinch himself and his life coming … well, for nan astir part.
"I'm a very happy personification hating everything passim my full life," he told Jimmy Fallon during an quality connected "The Tonight Show" successful March.
Jerry Seinfeld and his woman Jessica person been joined for almost 25 years. They person 3 children together. (Getty Images)
Including family vacations.
"I dislike it . . . I still spell because what is nan quality of doing 1 much point I don't for illustration connected apical of not liking thing anyway? . . . My wife, it's reliable connected her," he added. "She gets upset erstwhile I person a bad time. I don't. I knew it was going to suck. And past I'm going to kick astir it, which is thing I do enjoy. That's what I like. I emotion complaining."
While birthdays aren't his thing, turning 70 is still a milestone worthy recognizing.
To quote nan comedian himself from a 1993 section of "Seinfeld": "Birthdays are simply symbolic of really different twelvemonth has gone by and really small we've grown. No matter really hopeless we are that someday a amended aforesaid will look pinch each flicker of nan candles connected nan cake, we cognize it's not to be. That, for nan remainder of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to nan bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably. . . . Happy birthday? No specified thing."
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