Sarah Silverman Quotes

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

I've been making Vine videos for a couple of months. They're just six-second little videos, but I really have fun doing them. It's just fun to feel like you created something.

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

My background is in improv and writing.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

Drama is what I'm really obsessed by. It's what gets me up in the morning, what I live for. But I'll always have a love for comedy because it was my first opportunity, and I associate it with my best friends, who I made during 'School of Comedy'.

The thing I love about YouTube is it's almost like having an instant audience for improv.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

I keep doing specials because I think there are a lot of people who make movies and TV who are fans of comedy - if they start to like you, they'll get a project going and call you in.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they still wanted to try something else. They came to me and said they wanted to do something that was internet focused and created original content on their site, so they could compete with the funny or dies and what not. So that was the premise, and they gave us a small amount of money, $5000, and from there it turned into the show.

I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

I feel like comedy is doing well right now because there's so many avenues to be seen. Whether it's through the Internet with social media or web videos and now there's so many networks and TV shows.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.