Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Kate Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, producer and writer. Her comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics, such as racism, sexism, and religion, having her comic character endorse them in a sarcastic fashion. For her work on television she won two Primetime Emmy Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth1 December 1970
CityBedford, NH
CountryUnited States of America
growing-up race white
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.
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I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.
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I don't wanna be labeled as straight or labeled as gay. I just want people to look at me and see me as white.
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Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
hate white people
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!
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You got it, doll, I was curious to see which Courtney Love was going to show up: the smeared-lipstick crazy coke whore or the violent smeared-lipstick crazy coke whore.
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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.
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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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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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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 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 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.
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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 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.