I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion. Margaret Cho More Quotes by Margaret Cho More Quotes From Margaret Cho Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff. Margaret Cho monogamynamesstuff 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. Margaret Cho voicetakenthinking No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire? Margaret Cho realidolsfire And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off? Margaret Cho gunwaitingforever If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue. Margaret Cho gayself-esteemintegrity I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe. Margaret Cho comediansafewant I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. Margaret Cho bulletsablestrong It was hard for me to do the show (All-American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show and the host said, "Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?" So I looked at the camera and said, "Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate." Margaret Cho native-languagegirlmorning Comedy was all I ever wanted. Margaret Cho comedywanted Comedy is a noble art. Margaret Cho comedynobleart 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. Margaret Cho eyemotherchildren My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do. Margaret Cho parentkindworld I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else. Margaret Cho gayshould-havethinking In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Margaret Cho homophobic I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. Margaret Cho torontoasianracism I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out. Margaret Cho i-canfunny I definitely support free speech. Margaret Cho free-speechsupportspeech 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. Margaret Cho koreabattlehalf I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about. Margaret Cho sometimespeoplethinking 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. Margaret Cho modestytastelaw
