Margaret Cho Quotes - Page 3

I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

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

I will never stop complaining.

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 that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone. I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain. I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

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

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

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

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

[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.

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.

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

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

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

My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's no way to connect with my family now who are in North Korea because it's so isolated. We don't even know who is still there and who is alive, and if they are, what they are doing. Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle this totalitarianism.

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

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

If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.

I was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture and a lot of ecstasy. Because of all the drugs, there are certain songs that make me feel high.