As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. Margaret Cho More Quotes by Margaret Cho More Quotes From Margaret Cho 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. Margaret Cho want writing song My life is anything but typical. Margaret Cho typical life-is 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.' Margaret Cho careers self jobs I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!' Margaret Cho teacher art school I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders. Margaret Cho band artist dog 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. Margaret Cho party country children My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility. Margaret Cho hate mother baby One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world. Margaret Cho mastery shows world 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. Margaret Cho beautiful giving people This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me. Margaret Cho splits going-out night I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots. Margaret Cho roots sorry hair 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. Margaret Cho san-francisco excited kind When people think the world of you, be careful with them. Margaret Cho people world thinking 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. Margaret Cho role-models asian roles 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. Margaret Cho good-day morning trying [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. Margaret Cho fur ideas needs Im not a mom, but I think the word mother is about wisdom. Margaret Cho mom mother thinking 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. Margaret Cho stupid fun thinking In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV. Margaret Cho tvs ideas 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. Margaret Cho dancer dancing house
