Lea Delaria Quotes

#1. People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Paul Auster

#2. As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

Lea DeLaria

#3. Guns don't kill, people do.

Lea DeLaria

#4. The GOP's thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another.

Mike Lofgren

#5. If you study a lot because you are worried that others will think badly of you for being ignorant and you'll feel stupid, this is a serious mistake.

Dogen

#6. It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.

Lea DeLaria

#7. John F. Kennedy is reported to have said that we can forgive our enemies but we shouldn't forget their names.

Debbie Macomber

#8. Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

Lea DeLaria

#9. It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos.

Aaron Sorkin

#10. What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

Lea DeLaria

#11. I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

Lea DeLaria

#12. Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

Joyce Meyer

#13. A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.

Lea DeLaria

#14. They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

Lea DeLaria

#15. It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

Lea DeLaria

#16. My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.

Lea DeLaria

#17. Most of the jobs I've gotten are from people calling me. I don't actively solicit a lot of work like that, but maybe I should.

Adam Schlesinger

#18. But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean.

Sherri Gaillard

#19. It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.

Lea DeLaria

#20. Learn all the rules ... then break them.

Lea DeLaria

#21. Never point at anything beige and call it cool.

Lea DeLaria

#22. My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.'

Lea DeLaria

#23. It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more than the conclusion of an unpretentious evening's entertainments; it's a sublime and awesome coda to the career of one of this century's greatest artists.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

#24. No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

Lea DeLaria