Quotes By Margaret Cho

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

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

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

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

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

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

I will never stop complaining.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

I love New York. I love working here.

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.