Sarah Silverman Quotes

If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.

Sarah Silverman

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• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Comedy
  • Old
  • Watch

• Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Money
  • Space

• I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Independent

• As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Soldiers

• Comedy requires a lot of energy.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Energy
  • Comedy
  • Lot

• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Risk

• I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Loved

• In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Business
  • Power
  • True

• I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Character
  • Want
  • Comedy

• 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Man
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Violence

• Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • High
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Good
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Risk
  • Path
  • Right

• I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Love
  • Business
  • Risk

• Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • America
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Fall
  • Risk

• I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Good
  • Job
  • War

• As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

  

  James Hong
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Real

• You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Together
  • Interesting
  • Ego

• If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Comedy
  • Risk
  • Wounds