Quotes By Margaret Cho

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

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

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.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

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

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

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!

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.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

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

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

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

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.

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

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 will never stop complaining.

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.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

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

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.

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.