Sarah Silverman Quotes

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would get approval, and it made my arms itch with glee. I got addicted to it. It became this source of power in a totally powerless life.

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.

I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.

The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.

There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

People basically aren't that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he's gonna come see me. He's not gonna go see the white guy who doesn't make him laugh just because that guy is white.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

Everybody needs to laugh and have fun and feel good.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.