Sandra Bernhard Quotes

How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind?

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.

Gayness is a non-issue.

I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

My family wasn't the Brady Bunch. They were the Broody Bunch.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

I hate to judge everybody across the board.

I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.

I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.

... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.