Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.
Sandra Bernhard
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sandra Bernhard
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 6
Comedian
Film Actor
Singer
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Flint
Michigan
Overriding
Arcs
Career
Careers
Self
Important
Never
Would
Deprecating
More quotes by Sandra Bernhard
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Sandra Bernhard
Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.
Sandra Bernhard
I like the energy of live performance.
Sandra Bernhard
For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.
Sandra Bernhard
I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.
Sandra Bernhard
In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
Sandra Bernhard
You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
Sandra Bernhard
I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.
Sandra Bernhard
There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.
Sandra Bernhard
I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.
Sandra Bernhard
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
Sandra Bernhard
As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?
Sandra Bernhard
I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.
Sandra Bernhard
Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.
Sandra Bernhard
When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
Sandra Bernhard
I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.
Sandra Bernhard
I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
Sandra Bernhard
Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.
Sandra Bernhard
I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.
Sandra Bernhard
I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, What do you want to be when you grow up? I said, A comedian. And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.
Sandra Bernhard
