Top 248 Quotes & Sayings by Sarah Silverman
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.
And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
I like my life alone.
They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage.
When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach.
I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
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.
The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage. Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident.
I do love the idea of ritual.
I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
If I have kids, I'll adopt.
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.
I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.
The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.
I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.
I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.
I do love the idea of ritual. I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.
You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.
I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.
I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.
I really think everything is fair game.
My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the content, he's just hearing him. When I'm onstage, he's looking at the audience members and can't believe that there are strangers listening to me, and he's just delighted by the whole thing.
If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.
I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night.
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.
Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.
Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.
I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.
That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.
Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.
I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.
But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.
I just think of myself as a comedian, really. I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.
I just think of myself as a comedian, really.
I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.
I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.
What are the chances there is a God, really?
My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.
Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.
In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.
I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.
I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.
I remember when I got a part on 'Seinfeld' it was like an out of body experience, I was so excited.
My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.
By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
I'm not the marrying type, but I always want to be with someone who is a fan.
I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.
Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.
I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing.
You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to.
I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness.
It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.
I had a lot of depression as a kid.
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