Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

The line reads as a characteristically deadpan, self-mocking boast: the speaker claims to have “exuded self-confidence,” then undercuts the bravado by framing it as a simplistic, almost adolescent theory of attraction (“that drives women crazy”). In Larry David’s comedic persona, such statements often function as ironic self-portraiture—highlighting the gap between how someone narrates their own desirability and how others likely perceive them. The humor depends on overstatement and on the audience’s awareness that “confidence” can be performative, misread, or even delusional, especially when filtered through retrospective self-mythologizing.