Margaret Cho Thinking Quotations

I think reality television is such a special talent.

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.

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

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

Im not a mom, but I think the word mother is about wisdom.

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

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. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

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.

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

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

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

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.

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.

I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.

In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look in photographs. To me, it's irrelevant, which I think is really shocking to people in the industry that I'm in, because it's like, You should always look good, but I honestly don't care. It's not important to me.

I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

There's this idea like feminism is humorless and humorless in a way that's like a whistleblower. Like you're going to - you're going to make sure that nobody has any fun. And that's not true at all. I think feminism allows me to do what I do, and I'm so grateful to the idea of it and grateful to all the women that came before.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

I think I heard it [ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ] earlier. This was being played on a station in San Francisco called Live 105, which was a new wave station. It was one of the first stations to change its format in the early '80s. There was this wave of really strange music coming from Europe like Kraftwork and Freur.

I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.

I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

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.

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.

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

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

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."

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

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.

Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's also very un-Christian, if you think about the way Christ was and Christ's teachings. This is not loving. This is anger. This is hatred. This is bigotry. And it's wrong.

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 think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.