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" 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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" 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. "

Sarah Silverman

Insecurities

Bed

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

" 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. "

" You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to. "

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

" I really think everything is fair game. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist. "

" 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

" My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new. "

" 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. "

" The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17. "

" 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 love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I do love the idea of ritual. "

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

" 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. "

" When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach. "

" 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. "