Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
Comedian
Fashion Designer
Film Actor
Musician
Television Actor
Voice Actor
San Francisco County
California
Margaret Moran Cho
Moran Cho
Cho Moran
Jo Moran
Great
Stage
Idols
Kind
Fire
Transition
Life
Wonder
Comedian
Like
Audience
Destructive
Lives
False
Left
Private
Frenzy
Back
Leave
Comedians
Real
Comedy
Idol

More quotes by Margaret Cho

Image
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
Image
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho
Image
Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
Margaret Cho
Image
We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.
Margaret Cho
Image
Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.
Margaret Cho
Image
I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.
Margaret Cho
Image
All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.
Margaret Cho
Image
I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT' -
Margaret Cho
Image
I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.
Margaret Cho
Image
I like to respond with jokes and to keep it as light as possible.
Margaret Cho
Image
Anger and comedy are really connected.
Margaret Cho
Image
This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me.
Margaret Cho
Image
To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!
Margaret Cho
Image
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
Image
I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.
Margaret Cho
Image
I definitely support free speech.
Margaret Cho
Image
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
Image
If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?
Margaret Cho
Image
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
Image
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