Sandra Bernhard
There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.Collection: Moral
When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.Collection: Work Out
I'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.Collection: Hollywood
You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.Collection: Way
Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.Collection: Fabulous
I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.Collection: Views
I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I'd be a rock 'n' roll singer or an opera singer.Collection: New York
You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.Collection: Believe
I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.Collection: Feelings
I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.Collection: Mean
The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.Collection: Night
I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.Collection: Journey
As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?Collection: Kids
Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.Collection: Fun
I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.Collection: Spiritual
I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.Collection: Tired
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.Collection: Home
When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.Collection: People
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.Collection: Self
I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.Collection: Night
I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.Collection: Stars
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.Collection: Growing Up
I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.Collection: Love Is
I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?Collection: Night
It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.Collection: Depressing
Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing.Collection: Beautiful
Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.Collection: Needs
I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.Collection: Shadow
It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.Collection: Couple
I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.Collection: Emotional
Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.Collection: Couple
I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.Collection: Eye
You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.Collection: Feminism
Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?Collection: Hate
People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.Collection: Past
People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.Collection: Names
... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.Collection: Crazy
I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.Collection: Alaska
Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.Collection: Football
I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.Collection: Gay
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.Collection: Knowledge
Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.Collection: Mean
On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.Collection: Rap
I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.Collection: Thinking
A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.Collection: Mean
Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.Collection: Wings
I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.Collection: Flower
I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.Collection: Cds
Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.Collection: Play