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" I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. "
Sarah Silverman
Cry
Still
Salty
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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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Talk
Religion
Myself
" You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to. "
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You
Tell
" But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. "
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Enough
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" I really think everything is fair game. "
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Fair
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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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People
Humour
" Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts. "
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Stereotypes
Humor
People
" I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective. "
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Defend
Never
Material
" That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive. "
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Find
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Say
" 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. "
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Time
Feel
Believe
" 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
" 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. "
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Teeth
Love
Twice
" 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 had a lot of depression as a kid. "
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Kid
Lot
Had
" 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. "
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Think
Together
Beauty
" You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. "
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Comic
Whatever
You
" I'm not the marrying type, but I always want to be with someone who is a fan. "
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Someone
Always
Fan
" 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. "
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Together
Career
Myself
" When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach. "
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Acting
Coach
Out
" They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. "
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Got
Uncle
Trying
" 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. "
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You
Virtue
Too
" 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
" Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me. "
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Definitely
Me
Smells
" Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert. "
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Everyone
Alert
Course
" I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core. "
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Some
Hard
Core
" 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 don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. "
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Avoid
Offend
Out
" I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games. "
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Quarter
Last
Games
" 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. "
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Grow
Myself
Race
" 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 just think of myself as a comedian, really. "
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Really
Just
Myself