I didn't mean to be a role model. I just speak my truth. I guess speaking from your heart really creates a huge impact, and if I can encourage people to do that, then I would love to be a role model. If I could encourage people to use their voices loudly, then that's my reward.
– Margaret Cho
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
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
– 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
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
– Margaret Cho
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
– Margaret Cho
My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.
– Margaret Cho
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
– Margaret Cho
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
– Margaret Cho
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
– Margaret Cho
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
– Margaret Cho
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
– 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
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
– 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
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
– 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.
– Margaret Cho
Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?
– Margaret Cho
We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
– Margaret Cho
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
The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
– Margaret Cho
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
– 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
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
– 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.
– 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
It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
– 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
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
I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.
– Margaret Cho
I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.
– Margaret Cho
I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.
– Margaret Cho
I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.
– Margaret Cho
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.