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

Sarah Silverman

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

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

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

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

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" I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends. "

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" I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I'd love to do drama if it was interesting. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" I like my life alone. 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. "

Sarah Silverman

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not. "

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