Quotes By Margaret Cho

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

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.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

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.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

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.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

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

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

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

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

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

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

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

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

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

To be a feminist is to be alive.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them.

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

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