Sarah Silverman Quotes

"Oh, this sounds so obnoxious, ... I'm not planning anything out. I'm just trying to be funny. I don't think any of it's particularly deep. It's just what interests me."
-Sarah Silverman

"Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a (expletive) dream, too."
-Sarah Silverman

"I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core."
-Sarah Silverman

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

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

"It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it."
-Sarah Silverman

"I think that's always how it's been, ... I certainly didn't invent it. 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?"
-Sarah Silverman

"I always want to laugh at the sad stuff. You don't need to laugh at the other stuff. I'm not numb to these things. I still go into really dark periods about Sept. 11. I think it's kind of like bullies. Bullies are just scared and thin-skinned, so they have to become bullies as a kind of survival tactic. I think comics are that way, too."
-Sarah Silverman