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" 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. "

Sarah Silverman

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" I really think everything is fair game. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I do love the idea of ritual. "

" I'm not the marrying type, but I always want to be with someone who is a fan. "

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

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

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

Sarah Silverman

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" 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. "

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

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

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" If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "