Top 100 Margaret Cho Quotes
#1. I'm a big fan of Katt Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Louie CK, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Rich Vas, Joey Vega and Matt Claybrooks.
Chris Rock
#2. Started out, Funny, sexy, zaftig Margaret Cho ... What is zaftig? Isn't that German for big fat pig? I guess I was lucky- zaftig is kind of a nice word. It could have been, Funny, sexy, OBESE Margaret Cho.
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#3. People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.
Sandra Oh
#4. So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and ... Wanda Sykes and John Legend ... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
Henry Louis Gates
#5. I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.
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#6. I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'
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#7. Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
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#8. I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
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#9. Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
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#11. You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.
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#12. We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
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#13. One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.
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#14. I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.
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#15. I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.
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#16. Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.
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#17. I don't know why it's anyone's business! People do what they need to do. I did it, and it was nowhere near as traumatic as being raped. I was so numb for so long that sex work for me was not a big deal.
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#18. I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.
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#19. It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
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#20. When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?
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#21. In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
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#22. Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
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#23. My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.
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#24. I've worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some natural abilities, but it's the technique that I've been learning from the best that keeps me going. I'm really honored to do it.
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#25. People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.
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#26. My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.
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#27. I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.
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#28. 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.
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#29. To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!
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#30. Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.
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#31. Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
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#32. I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!
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#33. I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!
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#34. As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.
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#35. The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.
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#36. No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder ... is to snort it! I just won't do that this time!
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#37. I want to get married but I look at husbands the same way I look at tattoos. I want one, but I can't decide what I want, and I don't want to be stuck with something I'd grow to hate and have surgically removed.
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#38. Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.
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#39. It's okay for you to have relationships, but it's not okay to talk about them. It's not okay to be out or to be public about it. It's not okay to be photographed with your partner.
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#40. 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.
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#41. I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
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#44. You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.
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#45. It's hard to find peace with your thighs, but when they chafe, try to be grateful for them. Your thighs let you run and get you where you want to go. I have not just thigh peace but thigh happiness, and it begins with thigh gratitude.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.
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#54. When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy. All she said was 'Oh maybe it's better if you just die,' because it was killing her that I was doing this.
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#55. I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.
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#56. My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.
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#57. I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.
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#58. That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn't make any sense.
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#59. I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.
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#60. Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.
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#62. [Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.
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#63. People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.
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#64. Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
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#65. I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation; she was life; she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded.
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#66. I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT' -
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#67. I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.
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#68. I'm always surprised when I get recognized.
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#69. It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting.
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#70. I don't like catchphrases either. A current one would be, "Bye, Felicia." It's used so much that we don't even know the origin anymore.
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#71. Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.
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#72. The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
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#73. I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you ... I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."
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#74. Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'
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#75. In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.
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#76. I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.
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#77. 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.
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#78. Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.
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#79. Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.
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#80. I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.
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#81. Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.
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#82. Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.
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#83. Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.
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#84. I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.
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#85. George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.
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#86. If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'
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#87. I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.
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#88. I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.
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#89. I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.
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#90. I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.
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#91. I refer to myself as gay, but I'm married to a man.
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#92. I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide.
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#93. Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
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#94. White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.
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#95. [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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.
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#98. 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.
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#99. We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.
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#100. I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.
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