Sarah Silverman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
-
Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
-
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
-
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
-
I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
-
I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
-
All diseases run into one, old age.
-
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
-
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
-
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
-
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
-
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
-
When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
-
I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
-
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
-
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
-
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
-
Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
-
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
-
I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.
-
Government is the enemy until you need a friend.
-
This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable.
-
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
-
I just don't let that mentality be a part of my world.
