If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I don't really care for, like, fat jokes about women, specifically. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be labeled as straight or labeled as gay. I just want people to look at me and see me… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
It's funny how people will think I'm being sarcastic a lot and joking. So I'll say, "I like your dress," and they'll… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective,… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City)… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah!… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
She, uh, came out of the closet recently, my niece. Um... She announced to the family that she's a lesbian and... She's… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“At some point, I figured that it would be more effective and far funnier to embrace the ugliest, most terrifying things in… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
In your twenties, I think you should have all of the sex that you're inclined to have, as long as you're safe about it.… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Someone on Twitter sent me a page from a textbook. It had a picture of a football player next to a picture of me.… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to.… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“If you’ve ever heard that song by Beyoncé, “Single Ladies,” I am one of the people she’s singing about. I have to be, because… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
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