Sarah Silverman Quotes
You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
-
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
-
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
-
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
-
All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
-
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
-
Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
-
You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.
-
I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
-
A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.
-
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
-
A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
-
One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
-
I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
-
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
-
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
-
I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.
-
I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
-
Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture.
-
I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
-
I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil guys. Everything I've done is about these quite eccentric, exotic outsiders who you might see in a certain light at first, but once you scratch the surface a little, you realize that they're not that different from you. I think there's an element of that which unites.
-
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
-
You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
