Sarah Silverman Quotes
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Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"
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I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.
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As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.
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I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.
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I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.
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There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.
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I just think of myself as a comedian, really.
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Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.
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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.
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That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.
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The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.
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People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.
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You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to.
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I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.
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I don't think there is a woman in her 40s who doesn't, kind of, examine herself in the mirror.
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I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.
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Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
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The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.
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I'm almost positive there is no God.
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Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.
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I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.
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I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.
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Sometimes I am screwing around, and sometimes I get way too serious, but I am a pretty sincere person.
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I don't need a lot of space.