110+ Margaret Cho Quotes On Happiness, Relationships And Laughs

Margaret Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, fashion designer, author, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her stand-up routines, in which she often critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. Cho is also noted for her roles in the television sitcoms All-American Girl and Drop Dead Diva. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Margaret Cho on love, life, happiness.

Top 10 Margaret Cho Quotes

1. I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
2. Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
3. 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.
4. Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
5. Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
6. 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.
7. People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
8. Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
9. If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'
10. I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

Margaret Cho Short Quotes

• Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
• Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
• I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.
• Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.
• We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
• George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.
• I don't think I'm gay. I don't think I'm straight. I think I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
• I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
• We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.
• I like to respond with jokes and to keep it as light as possible.

Margaret Cho Quotes About Love

I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, “I’m beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I’m beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I’m beautiful because I say I am. I’ve earned it, and I’m gonna be it. — 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 love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body — 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

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

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather. — Margaret Cho

One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat. — Margaret Cho

I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic. — Margaret Cho

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually. — Margaret Cho

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner. — Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho Quotes About Life

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

I was lucky. I always had really great friends in my personal life, people always just knew who I was. It wasn't until I was in show business where that sort of changed or shifted at first. I have always had a great support network. I have had a lot of really wonderful, close friends. — Margaret Cho

People at shows have told me that they've shown my videos to their parents and families to help them come out of the closet. It's very inspiring that comedy can do that and can help people cope with everyday life and challenges through humor. — Margaret Cho

It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting. — Margaret Cho

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do. — Margaret Cho

I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation; she was life; she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded. — Margaret Cho

No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder... is to snort it! I just won't do that this time! — Margaret Cho

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life. — Margaret Cho

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody. — Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho Quotes About Happiness

It's hard to find peace with your thighs, but when they chafe, try to be grateful for them. Your thighs let you run and get you where you want to go. I have not just thigh peace but thigh happiness, and it begins with thigh gratitude. — Margaret Cho

When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all? — Margaret Cho

As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. — Margaret Cho

Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you. — Margaret Cho

The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. And it has a transformative power. — Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho Quotes About Funny

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass. — Margaret Cho

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger. — Margaret Cho

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out. — Margaret Cho

I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one more person talks, everybody is going to Hell." — Margaret Cho

[An article about Cho] started out, "Funny, sexy, zaftig Margaret Cho..." What is "zaftig?" Isn't that German for "big fat pig?" I guess I was lucky - "zaftig" is kind of a nice word. It could have been, "Funny, sexy, OBESE Margaret Cho." — 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

There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females. — Margaret Cho

I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself. — Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho Quotes About Hate

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough. — Margaret Cho

I have so much hate that it has turned into love. — Margaret Cho

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language. — Margaret Cho

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time. — Margaret Cho

I want to get married but I look at husbands the same way I look at tattoos. I want one, but I can't decide what I want, and I don't want to be stuck with something I'd grow to hate and have surgically removed. — Margaret Cho

I always wonder why Republicans hate gay marriage, because they certainly don't hate gay prostitutes. — Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho Quotes About Live

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. — Margaret Cho

I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. "Survivor" is the more healing way to look at it. — Margaret Cho

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere. — Margaret Cho

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

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it. — Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho Famous Quotes And Sayings

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose. — Margaret Cho

If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. — Margaret Cho

Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed. — 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 was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture and a lot of ecstasy. Because of all the drugs, there are certain songs that make me feel high. — Margaret Cho

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate. — Margaret Cho

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled. — Margaret Cho

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. — Margaret Cho

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. — 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

Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me. — Margaret Cho

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

You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of social media. There are so many personalities, so many different kinds of comedy that you can access, so it’s definitely important to stake your claim and say who you are. — Margaret Cho

White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people. — Margaret Cho

My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's no way to connect with my family now who are in North Korea because it's so isolated. We don't even know who is still there and who is alive, and if they are, what they are doing. Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle this totalitarianism. — Margaret Cho

I don't like people telling other people what to do. Sex work for a lot of women is really important, especially in countries where women don't have a lot of power. Here we can have at least some form ... of making money. — Margaret Cho

You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad. — Margaret Cho

I don't understand the whole Christian conservativism doesn't make sense to me because I was raised very Christian and its kind of an odd thing but my parents, my family is also very conservative in their own way but I understand the bible and I studied Christianity very well and I don't see where the hatred of gays comes from because it really defeats Christ's purpose. — Margaret Cho

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else. — Margaret Cho

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling. — Margaret Cho

A few words about ‘trannychasing.’ I am not a trannychaser. Ok, actually I am a trannychaser. No I am not. I am a trannycatcher! Just kidding! — Margaret Cho

I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian. — Margaret Cho

I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good. — Margaret Cho

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them? — Margaret Cho

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color. — Margaret Cho

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. We cannot change anything until we accept that. I cannot do this alone. I don't love myself enough to do it alone, but I can do it if we have a pact, if I am keeping up my end of the bargain. I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough. — Margaret Cho

I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about. — Margaret Cho

I've always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I'm very grateful for that. — Margaret Cho

As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that. — Margaret Cho

When people think the world of you, be careful with them. — Margaret Cho

Kim Kardashian is a kind of archetype. But she owns her beauty and is tremendously successful. There's no tragedy, there's no drug story. There's just her and her fame and her beauty. But Anna Nicole created that template of somebody that you'd want to watch on reality TV. Somebody that you'd want to invite into your home or as a role model, in terms of beauty and lifestyle and glamour. — Margaret Cho

Anything Vince Clarke, whether it's Erasure, Yaz, or Depeche Mode. It's basically R&B with synths. It's very sexy music and perfect for gay sex. — Margaret Cho

[Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel. — Margaret Cho

Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on. — Margaret Cho

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women. — Margaret Cho

No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire? — Margaret Cho

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era. — Margaret Cho

I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately. — Margaret Cho

I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, "Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!" — Margaret Cho

My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore and it had a lot of gay literature and art books and he wanted me to be taken care of by the young gays and lesbians who worked for him. — Margaret Cho

I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you. — Margaret Cho

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to. — Margaret Cho

I definitely support free speech. — Margaret Cho

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex. — Margaret Cho

It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real. — Margaret Cho

I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us. — Margaret Cho

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point. — Margaret Cho

That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us. — Margaret Cho

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you. — Margaret Cho

If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing. — Margaret Cho

I don't like pot anymore -- I forget why. — Margaret Cho

I could definitely rock out to Kraftwerk's "Tour De France," Tubeway Army, or Gary Numan. All of that stuff has an infectious beat, but with "Oh Yeah," I can't even identify what's going on. It sounds like typewriter keys, a couple of synth notes and then this really deep "Oh yeah," which I always picture as Andre The Giant on vocals. — Margaret Cho

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs. — Margaret Cho

The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo. — Margaret Cho

There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media. — Margaret Cho

I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because it's so rare that we get to. We're told to forgive - I don't want to! I don't want to forgive my abuser! I don't care to and I don't like that assumption that forgiveness makes me a better person. It's not authentic to me, my feelings and what I need. But everyone has their own way. — Margaret Cho

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for. — Margaret Cho

I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else. — Margaret Cho

Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted. — Margaret Cho

I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you. [...] I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman." — Margaret Cho

I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much. — Margaret Cho

Comedy was all I ever wanted. — Margaret Cho

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president. — Margaret Cho

Sex in general, for me, is a lot of different aspects of humanity, not just my relationships. It's my relationship to myself and my body. — Margaret Cho

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr? — Margaret Cho

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

In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. — Margaret Cho

It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking. — Margaret Cho

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders. — Margaret Cho

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' — Margaret Cho

I love New York. I love working here. — Margaret Cho

Life Lessons by Margaret Cho

1. Margaret Cho's work teaches us to be unapologetically ourselves and to embrace our unique identities.
2. She encourages us to use our voices to speak out against injustice and to stand up for what is right.
3. She shows us that we can use comedy to draw attention to social issues and to create a more equitable society.