Margaret Cho
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.Collection: Humor
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.Collection: Beauty
It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.Collection: Humor
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!'Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Happiness
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.Collection: Change
Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.Collection: Birthday
I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.Collection: Sad
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!Collection: Smile
The power of visibility can never be underestimated.Collection: Power
I think reality television is such a special talent.
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?
In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!
I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.
To be a feminist is to be alive.
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
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.
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 think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
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.
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.
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
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.
If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.
Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?
I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.
I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.
I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.
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.
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.
It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.
Comedy was all I ever wanted.
People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.
I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.
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.