Margaret Cho Quotes

What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.

For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to.

I don't like catchphrases either. A current one would be, "Bye, Felicia." It's used so much that we don't even know the origin anymore.

I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that.

You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you. [...] I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.

I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.

Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

I just think women are funnier than men.

Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

People at shows have told me that they've shown my videos to their parents and families to help them come out of the closet. It's very inspiring that comedy can do that and can help people cope with everyday life and challenges through humor.

Kim Kardashian is a kind of archetype. But she owns her beauty and is tremendously successful. There's no tragedy, there's no drug story. There's just her and her fame and her beauty. But Anna Nicole created that template of somebody that you'd want to watch on reality TV. Somebody that you'd want to invite into your home or as a role model, in terms of beauty and lifestyle and glamour.

I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.

I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.

Now on Facebook I have all these 'friends' who used to bully me, and they're like, 'We're so proud! We love you!' They come to shows and want to take a picture, and they're like, 'Don't you remember us?' And I'm like, 'I'm sorry, I don't.' And I feel bad, but I feel good.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.

Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it had a lot of gay literature and art books and he wanted me to be taken care of by the young gays and lesbians who worked for him.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

Like the Birth Of Venus, the song [Yello "oh, Yeah"] denotes the birth of the bro. The song just reminds me of bros looking out over lowered Ray-Bans. It birthed a negative sexual revolution. I was going to a lot of bondage clubs at the time and they did play this song. The song I associate more is that horrible Enigma song with the Gregorian chant. There's something good buried in that song and I might not hate it as much if I hadn't been a sex worker.

Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.