Top 276 Quotes & Sayings by Margaret Cho

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Margaret Cho.
Last updated on November 3, 2024.
Margaret Cho

Margaret Moran Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, LGBT social activist, and musician. She is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
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.
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.
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. — © Margaret Cho
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.
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
I will never stop complaining.
I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't imagine my life without them.
I'm always surprised when I get recognized.
When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.
To be a feminist is to be alive.
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.
Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests? — © Margaret Cho
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 the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.
I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.
It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.
I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!
I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.
I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.
I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.
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!
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!
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 think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.
Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.
I think reality television is such a special talent.
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.
I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.
My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.
My life is anything but typical. — © Margaret Cho
My life is anything but typical.
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.
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.
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 all I ever wanted.
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
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.
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.
Babies got it going on!
We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.
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.
My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English. — © Margaret Cho
My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
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.
I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'
I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.
I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.
The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.
The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
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.
Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.
This site uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. More info...
Got it!