Sarah Silverman quotes

Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Inability #Alive

What makes Disney movies and Pixar movies always so good, hey take time and they're constantly honing, and tweaking, and rejiggering things, and taking influences from every cog, including myself, that can help. Any place where there can be inspiration. They make every moment very layered and very rich.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Inspiration #Cogs #Hey

When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Funny #Giving #Way

I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Way #Proud #Born This Way

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!
-- Sarah Silverman

#Hate #White #People

My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Dad #Thinking #Secret

Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated
-- Sarah Silverman

#Asking

Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Scary #Trivia #Television

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Artist #Smell #Brilliant

I do know that I can take a punch. I've been punched in the face three times. That's, I think, a really important thing to know about yourself. It helps you in life. It helps you be brave when you know you can take a punch. I'm a lover, not a fighter. But, God bless me, I can take a punch.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Thinking #Brave #Important

That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Home #Description #Accurate

I think fake ***** have done great things for real boobs. I think people finally appreciate real boobs. People like real boobs. I do. I also enjoy the fact that they are life-nourishers.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Real #Thinking #Appreciate

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Self #Google

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Clever #Heart #Political

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Girl #Growing Up #Powerful

I like to think of myself as 'hot-larious' I'm cute, but I'm totally approachable.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Cute #Thinking #Hot

I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Eye #Body #Stories

I feel so confident and awesome and sexy when I'm with people who are older than me, and I've always been surrounded by people who are older than me. But to be vital in comedy, you have to exist in a world that's dominated by young people.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Sexy #People #World

Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Sometimes #Enough #Responsible

I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Hamburgers #Want #Vegetarian

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Real #Thinking #People

I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful. I mean, I live in a three-room apartment. I mostly make free videos on my couch. But I am fine.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Mean #Successful #Rooms

When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Want #Profile #Carols

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.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Children #Growing Up #Taken

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Writing #Ideas #Stuff

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.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Dream #Sleep #Hands

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.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Drama #Thinking #Comedian

I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Jesus #Hate #Believe

There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Moving #Mixing #Comedy

The female nudity in movies is always sexualized.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Female #Nudity

I was Minnie Mouse for Halloween, every year when I was little. Then, I had the Cinderella nightgown, when I was really little, that I begged my mother to wear to school. I was also Snow White a lot.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Mother #Halloween #School

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. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Summer #Kids #Smell

I'm always in those tabloids where they show who's badly dressed. It's funny, because each time I'm getting my picture taken, I'm thinking, This is a nice outfit.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Nice #Taken #Thinking

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Real #Velocity #Comedy

I just look like a transvestite when I try to dress up. There's no place to hide my balls.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Trying #Looks #Dresses

I don't get this shitty attitude that only gays should care about gay issues and only women should care about women's issues.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Attitude #Gay #Issues

When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Party #Gay #Night

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.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Growing Up #Race #White

We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Hypocrisy #Democracy

Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and don't work hard, and there are people who are brilliant and sabotage themselves
-- Sarah Silverman

#Hard Work #Rocks #People

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Beautiful #Character #Succeed

I'm personally not into a guy who wears pedal pushers and a necklace.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Guy #Necklaces #Pedals

People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Cutting #People #Topics

Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Addiction #Laughing #Survival

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Song #Heartache #Want

Why would I become involved with something that doesn't include everyone? If you're getting married today, it's the equivalent of joining a country club that doesn't allow blacks or Jews.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Country #Joining #Clubs

It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Stupid #People #Really Stupid

I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Smart #People #Want

I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."
-- Sarah Silverman

#Song #New York #Guy

I'm doing stuff on Kaballah and Scientology and a little bit more racial stuff, for good measure.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Stuff #Littles #Scientology

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.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Laughing #People #Want

I can't cater to everyone's needs and what they're going to be offended by; that's one freedom I have.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Needs #Offended

I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.
-- Sarah Silverman

#People #Offensive #Materials

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.
-- Sarah Silverman

#Thinking #Safe #Littles