203 Quotes by Sandra Bernhard

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.

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'm somebody who can absorb a lot.

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.

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

I'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.

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.