203 Quotes by Sandra Bernhard

It’s usually a spiritual thing that’s preventing somebody from having happiness.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that’s how I view the world.

It’s nobody’s business how you do something.

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn’t want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I’d be a rock ‘n’ roll singer or an opera singer.

Growing up in the ’60s and the ’70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It’s like the original drag queen’s holiday. It’s when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

I’ll take on somebody if they’re offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

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’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.