Sarah Silverman Quotes

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are nonsense. You write what you write, and then either it holds up or it doesn't hold up. There are no rules or particular sensibilities. I don't believe in that at all anymore.

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

I don't have much of an organization at all. I listen to my heart.

Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.