Top 180 Margaret Cho Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The power of visibility can never be underestimated.”

— Margaret Cho

2. “Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.”

— Margaret Cho

3. “Everything is going to be fine in the end, and if it’s not fine, it’s not the end.”

— Margaret Cho

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “I’m not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.”

— Margaret Cho

9. “Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.”

— Margaret Cho

10. “I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.”

— Margaret Cho

11. “People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I’ve endured.”

— Margaret Cho

12. “My philosophy is, “murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself.” I’ve seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.”

— Margaret Cho

13. “Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.”

— Margaret Cho

14. “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

15. “My life is anything but typical.”

— Margaret Cho

16. “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

17. “I will never stop complaining.”

— Margaret Cho

18. “I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn’t exist, because I hated myself so much.”

— Margaret Cho

19. “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

20. “Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.”

— Margaret Cho

21. “I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.”

— Margaret Cho

22. “Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.”

— Margaret Cho

23. “I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they’re too scared to tell black people.”

— Margaret Cho

24. “If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, 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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “I don’t know if I’m a bottom because it turns me on, or if I’m a bottom because I’m lazy.”

— Margaret Cho

30. “I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.”

— Margaret Cho

31. “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

32. “My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.”

— Margaret Cho

33. “Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.”

— Margaret Cho

34. “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

35. “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

36. “Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There’s a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.”

— Margaret Cho

37. “You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you’ll be punished and labeled.”

— Margaret Cho

38. “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

39. “The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.”

— Margaret Cho

40. “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

41. “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

42. “I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.”

— Margaret Cho

43. “Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.”

— Margaret Cho

44. “Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.”

— Margaret Cho

45. “One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.”

— Margaret Cho

46. “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

47. “When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy. All she said was ‘Oh maybe it’s better if you just die,’ because it was killing her that I was doing this.”

— Margaret Cho

48. “I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, ‘You have to lose weight or you’ll lose that job.’”

— Margaret Cho

49. “I don’t want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That’s been used to hurt me so much.”

— Margaret Cho

50. “I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.”

— Margaret Cho