Sarah Silverman Quotes
If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
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And as for Ken, Mayor Livingstone, I think you have been a very considerable public servant and a distinguished leader of this city.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
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Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'
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Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.
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If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.
