Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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.
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
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 love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.
New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.
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.
In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.
Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.
I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.
I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.
I've always gotten myself overly involved in supporting other women who've not always been as supportive in return.
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.
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.
They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.
I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.
Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.
I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.
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.
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.
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?
It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
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.
