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" I had a lot of depression as a kid. "
Sarah Silverman
Kid
Lot
Had
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" 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. "
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Religion
Myself
" I don't really care for, like, fat jokes about women, specifically. "
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Like
Care
Fat
" 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. "
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Writing
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" 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. "
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Done
Fun
Me
" The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17. "
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Summer
First
First Time
" My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new. "
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Happy
Know
Night
" 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. "
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Black
Black And White
Feelings
" 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. "
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Back
Three
Me
" I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core. "
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Some
Hard
Core
" 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. "
Sarah Silverman
You
Virtue
Too
" 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. "
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Believe
Looking
Listening
" 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. "
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Family
Laugh
Clown
" You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. "
Sarah Silverman
Comic
Whatever
You
" That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive. "
Sarah Silverman
Find
Offensive
Say
" Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist. "
Sarah Silverman
I Think
Say
Think
" 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. "
Sarah Silverman
Good
Money
Worry
" Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert. "
Sarah Silverman
Everyone
Alert
Course
" 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. "
Sarah Silverman
Life
Someone
Men
" What are the chances there is a God, really? "
Sarah Silverman
God
Chances
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. "
Sarah Silverman
Myself
Funny
Religion
" 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. "
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Life
My Life
Back
" I do love the idea of ritual. "
Sarah Silverman
Idea
Love
Ritual
" I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself. "
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You
Myself
Love
" I remember when I got a part on 'Seinfeld' it was like an out of body experience, I was so excited. "
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Got
Body
Experience
" I'd love to do drama if it was interesting. "
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Interesting
Drama
Love
" 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. "
Sarah Silverman
Looking
Run
Sleep
" 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. "
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Before
Teeth
Twice
" I really think everything is fair game. "
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Game
Fair
Everything
" I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me. "
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Think
Way
Funny
" 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. "
Sarah Silverman
Teeth
Love
Twice