Sarah Silverman

I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.

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

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.

You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to.

I'm not the marrying type, but I always want to be with someone who is a fan.

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

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.

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 remember when I got a part on 'Seinfeld' it was like an out of body experience, I was so excited.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

What are the chances there is a God, really?

I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.

I do love the idea of ritual.

I just think of myself as a comedian, really.