Margaret Cho Quotes

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

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.

Comedy was all I ever wanted.

I am a big Ellen fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.

My life is anything but typical.

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

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

There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

I definitely support free speech.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

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

In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

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.'

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

I like to respond with jokes and to keep it as light as possible.

Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

Anger and comedy are really connected.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

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

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

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

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.

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

For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

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

I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

I just think women are funnier than men.

There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy comedy.

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.

Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.

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.

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.

As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.

I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

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.

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