390 Quotes by Margaret Cho

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

I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body.

If you’re a songwriter, you want to write a song like “Oh Yeah” that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it’s a good or bad thing.

I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they’d laugh.

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

If you’re going to be wrong, at least be hot.

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.

Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it’s actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.

I just want to love everyone. I don’t care if that sounds stupid. I want to love everyone.