Margaret Cho Quotes

Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell."

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.

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

I will never stop complaining.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.

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.

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

I love New York. I love working here.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.

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.

I don't like pot anymore -- I forget why.

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 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 feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

Im not a mom, but I think the word mother is about wisdom.

A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around.

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.