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" 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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" 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. "

Sarah Silverman

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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. "

Sarah Silverman

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" But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

Sarah Silverman

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like my life alone. "

" I really think everything is fair game. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't really care for, like, fat jokes about women, specifically. "

Sarah Silverman

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" I do love the idea of ritual. "

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

" 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 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. "