Quotes from Sarah Silverman

I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.

My growing up years, we watched 'Happy Days,' every night. I don't know what was reruns and what was new.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

I just think of myself as a comedian, really.

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.

My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the content, he's just hearing him. When I'm onstage, he's looking at the audience members and can't believe that there are strangers listening to me, and he's just delighted by the whole thing.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish.

I'm all sentimental. I've probably been ruined by romantic movies, but I really do believe in love. I've experienced it, I've had it, so I know it's real.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

People say, like, "I love when you smile because part of your mouth goes up," then I never organically smile again.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

I really think everything is fair game.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

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.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.

I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy.

We deserve quality lives with equality.

I like my life alone.

It feels weird in our ear holes to hear people worshipping a guy named Ron. We know Rons in our life.

Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.

The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage. Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.