Sarah Silverman Quotes

I was always interested in comedy, like when I was 5 years old. I watched 'I Love Lucy' and 'Benny Hill.' I would always joke around with my sister. My mom was into comedy, too. She would go to the video store and get a couple of movies and some stand-up comedians' tapes.

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

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

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

I really want to do comedy.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

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

Getting a laugh was what I'd been doing with my family and at school since the age of three.

I don't do stand-up anymore.

My family is all obsessed with comedy. I grew up watching a lot of comedy in the house. I used to watch Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy with my dad. But my mom is more into slapstick stuff.

When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids.

I'd rather do comedy. I'd rather make people laugh than cry.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.