Sarah Silverman People Quotations

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

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.

People need to feel like they're not being attacked, like they're in a safe space where no punches are being pulled.

And I like that people sometimes get more out of it - if it instigates thoughts about race, or sex, or something.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

Jews are the most liberal, scrappy, civil-rightsy people there are.

Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?

I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.

It feels weird in our ear holes to hear people worshipping a guy named Ron. We know Rons in our life.

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 grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.

As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.

When you’re a bed wetter there’s only one group of people you can feel better than, bed shitters, and unfortunately they’re hard to come by.

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.

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.

I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.

Mommy is one of the chosen people … and daddy believes that Jesus is magic!

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

Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"

In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

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!

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.

People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.