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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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" 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

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Bed

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

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

" Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me. "

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

" I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy. "

Sarah Silverman

Need

Hand

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

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

" 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. "

" I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school. "

Sarah Silverman

Back

Three

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

" 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. "

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

Sarah Silverman

Jewish

Totally

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

" I like my life alone. "

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

Sarah Silverman

Adopt

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" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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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