Sarah Silverman Quotes

I don't want to deconstruct what I do.

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• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • School
  • Understand

• The only people that should vote should be legal.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Vote
  • Legal

• John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • America
  • Hard Work

• Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Real
  • Today

• If the language of art is not accessible to ordinary language and ordinary experience, how can it be accessible to ordinary people?

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Art
  • Experience

• A Very Revealing Conversation With Rihanna (2015)

  

  Rihanna

• I have always believed that freedom of information is so vital that only the national security, not the desire of public officials or private citizens, should determine when it must be restricted.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Desire

• I love a cute work-to-play heel.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Work
  • Cute

• The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Death
  • Fall

• After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Time
  • World
  • Goals

• I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • Black

• Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Pregnancy

• I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Children
  • Dying
  • Sick

• I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

  

  David Spade

• I'm happy. I don't care what other people say or think. I'm happy. I'm blessed. I'm proud of my life, and that's it. That's all that matters.

  

  Kevin Federline
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Perfect

• I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything - it's really similar to making music for a show like 'Hannibal.' It's like cooking; it's just like owning a restaurant.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Music
  • Real
  • Job

• In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

  

  Bill James
  • Important

• I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to do. I didn't want it to be gentle like most puppet shows tend to be, since they come from childhood where you're gently trying to tell a story. I wanted to blast all that out of the water. I think there's plenty of room of any kind of attitude toward puppets. I call puppeteering acting while hiding.

  

  Wayne White
  • Show
  • Puppet
  • Deconstruct

• String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • High

• Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Destroy

• If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Stage

• My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • Actor
  • Would
  • Ideal

• I don't want to deconstruct what I do.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Deconstruct