Margaret Cho Quotes

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Margaret Cho

Profession : Comedian

Birth : December 5, 1968

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

Margaret Cho

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Margaret Cho

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Margaret Cho

I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'

Margaret Cho

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Margaret Cho

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Margaret Cho

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Margaret Cho

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Margaret Cho

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

Margaret Cho

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

Margaret Cho

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

Margaret Cho

Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There's a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.

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People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Margaret Cho