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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Sarah Silverman

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Want

Defend

" I had a lot of depression as a kid. "

" You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. "

" I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah! That's how it's done!' But for me it's the audience. If I feel connected to them, I have so much fun, and if not, it stinks. "

Sarah Silverman

Done

Fun

" 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. "

" What are the chances there is a God, really? "

" It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. "

" 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. "

" By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. "

" I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show. "

Sarah Silverman

Show

Started

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just think of myself as a comedian, really. "

" I do love the idea of ritual. "

" 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. "

" I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core. "

" 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. "

" 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'm Jewish, but I'm totally not. "

Sarah Silverman

Jewish

Totally

" I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. "

" They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive. "

" I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus. "

" I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective. "

" You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it. "

" 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. "

" If I have kids, I'll adopt. "

Sarah Silverman

Adopt

Kids

" 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. "