Margaret Cho Quotes

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Margaret Cho

Profession : Comedian

Birth : December 5, 1968

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

Margaret Cho

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

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I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

Margaret Cho

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

Margaret Cho

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

Margaret Cho

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

Margaret Cho

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

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My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

Margaret Cho

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

Margaret Cho

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

Margaret Cho

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

Margaret Cho

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

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Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

Margaret Cho

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

Margaret Cho

I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.

Margaret Cho

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

Margaret Cho