Sandra Bernhard
I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.Collection: Cool
That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.Collection: Dreams
I don't believe in karma.
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
I like the energy of live performance.
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.
The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.
At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.
Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.
Gayness is a non-issue.
I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.
I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.
I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.
I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.
I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.
When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.
When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.Collection: Mother
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.Collection: Love
You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.Collection: Artist
My family wasn't the Brady Bunch. They were the Broody Bunch.Collection: My Family
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.Collection: Sacrifice
Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.Collection: Who I Am
I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.Collection: Growing Up
I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.Collection: Believe
Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.Collection: Queens
I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.Collection: Thinking
From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.Collection: Smart
How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind?Collection: Mind
Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.Collection: Growing Up
I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."Collection: Thinking
Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.Collection: Cookies
Random things make me laugh.Collection: Laughing
At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.Collection: Views
Kids need to be educated about sex and sexuality and if they're going to have sex, learn how to protect themselves and not get pregnant.Collection: Sex
If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.Collection: Home
For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.Collection: Guilty
Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.Collection: Inspirational
I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.Collection: Humor
If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.Collection: Want