Margaret Cho Quotes (25 Quotes)


    I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

    It's very frustrating because we're always judging women on their appearance. It's so casual and never questioned. There needs to be somebody standing around and asking why this is still happening.

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

    I'm very excited about this project because, finally, I get to become my mother,

    I don't really have an agenda. I don't care about being on a sitcom or making an impression to the powers that be. I'm doing all this ... because this is what I want to do. So I'm free to do whatever I like to.


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

    She has a somewhat clandestine method of changing her own attitudes. I'm a belly dancer It's my other secret job, ... Every once in a while I dance at a Middle Eastern restaurant which is fun. I'm an off-night dancer.

    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 didn't mean to be a role model. I just speak my truth. I guess speaking from your heart really creates a huge impact, and if I can encourage people to do that, then I would love to be a role model. If I could encourage people to use their voices loudly, then that's my reward.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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

    It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show, and the host said, 'Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition' So I looked at the camera and said, 'Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate.'

    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.

    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.

    Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

    Fun and games for sure, but with an underlying middle finger toward growing intolerance in mainstream USA. To me, it's always about a queer audience, ... If it bleeds into mainstream culture, that's fine - they can come along and sit in for the ride. There is nothing else but gay culture for me. It's being part of that gay audience, being included within it, speaking from within it.

    I love the word faggot, because it describes my kind of guy. You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are the backbone of the gay community. Without us, you're nothing We have been there all through history guiding your sorry ass through the underground railroad ...We went to the prom with you.

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

    Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

    Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

    And especially, especially, don't fck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into an argument with a vegan, say I'm wrong, and run away as fast as you can. Do not fck with vegans because they will fck you up... BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY.


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