Sarah Silverman Quotes

Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?

Sarah Silverman

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• When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

  

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• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

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• How wonderful it was to sit on a set with Norman Mailer and get to know him.

  

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• I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

  

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• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

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• I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

  

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• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

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• I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.

  

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• People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

  

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• Acting takes so much energy.

  

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• Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

  

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• Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me. The juxtaposition was meant to illustrate two meanings of "offensive." Seriously. It broke my heart. It's that accepted what I do is offensive?

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Heart
  • Football
  • Player