227 Quotes by Janeane Garofalo

The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.

I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.

[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

I truly believe a woman's weight is a political issue, and if one young woman out there can see me and not feel crummy about herself, that's a good thing.

I'm not a disciplined writer.

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.

I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'