Top 50 Margaret Cho Quotes

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

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.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.

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.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

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

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.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Babies got it going on!

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

You don’t need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.

I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

I love New York. I love working here.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that’s my contribution.

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

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.

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.

I don’t really know what ‘selling out’ is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody’s buying it. I would love to go mainstream, but my comedy is too edgy. It’s always too dirty. It’s always too filthy. I’m dying to sell out. But I love doing comedy, I love touring, and I think I would do everything for free.

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.

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.

The newest victims of the nation’s foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

I’m not a mom, but I think the word ‘mother’ is about wisdom.

Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

In the early ’90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

When it comes to children, my mom doesn’t believe in borders. She loves all children, and that’s a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

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.

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

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don’t.

My life is anything but typical.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

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.

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.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex – ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.

I love animals.

I can’t drag myself away from ‘Final Cut Pro.’ It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can’t use it.

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

You don’t become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

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!’

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That’s a straight up Democrat move!

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.