But I will say—and I hope this is OK to say—that after I did that [monologue], he called me. And he said it really helped one of his daughters to understand. She showed it to him and she said, I can love you even though you did bad things. And we cried. It was a small silver lining in a very bleak story.

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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.

Sarah Silverman

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

Sarah Silverman

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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.

Sarah Silverman

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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.

Sarah Silverman

halloween mother school

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

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

Sarah Silverman

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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

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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. 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

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The female nudity in movies is always sexualized.

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

Sarah Silverman

pedals necklaces guy

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

Sarah Silverman

velocity comedy real

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

rocks hard-work people

I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

Sarah Silverman

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My mom was always someone who if, even now, I say I met a certain famous person, she always says, "She's married to so and so!"

Sarah Silverman

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It's just hard to say, "Well, I do this, which means this." If I'm telling you exactly who I am, then there's nothing for the audience to say.

Sarah Silverman

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I like trying jokes and seeing the response, and if I end up doing it in my act, it won't be 140 characters. Twitter is helpful that way to me. It's like a message in a bottle. But a lot of times I think I tweet the stuff I would like to say to teenage me.

Sarah Silverman

teenage character thinking

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

Sarah Silverman

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Scientology is weird because it's new.

Sarah Silverman

scientology

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

Sarah Silverman

overhead lucky lows

I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.

Sarah Silverman

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