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I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.
Sarah Silverman
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Sarah Silverman
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 1
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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.
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I just look like a transvestite when I try to dress up. There's no place to hide my balls.
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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.
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You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.
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Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it.
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Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.
Sarah Silverman
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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks.
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I like to think of myself as 'hot-larious' I'm cute, but I'm totally approachable.
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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.
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The worst thing that can happen for people who don't want women to be strong is that we help each other and become a force.
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I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.
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I just think of myself as a comedian, really.
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It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.
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Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.
Sarah Silverman
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.
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