Sarah Silverman Quotes

I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

Sarah Silverman

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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Want
  • Never
  • Drama

• We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Religious
  • Democracy
  • Drama

• There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Different
  • Family
  • Movie

• I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Creative

• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Study
  • End

• As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Mind

• If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Amazing

• The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.

  

  Aesop
  • Thinking
  • Gold

• I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Thinking

• Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Wishes

• I went to drama school. I'm classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare's comedies over his dramas.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • School
  • Drama

• I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • World
  • Respect
  • Comedy

• I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Thinking

• Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

  

  Chi Chi Rodriguez
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Golf

• I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Relationship

• I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • First
  • Wine
  • Entrepreneur

• I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn't know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn't want to do any of the courses.

  

  Aidan Turner

• I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Song
  • Rap

• The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Cold

• I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • Comedian