Top 180 Margaret Cho Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.”

— Margaret Cho

102. “I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.”

— Margaret Cho

103. “I mean, what’s great about touring is that’s what you do. You’re in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That’s the only responsibility that you have.”

— Margaret Cho

104. “Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.”

— Margaret Cho

105. “My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.”

— Margaret Cho

106. “I don’t like catchphrases either. A current one would be, “Bye, Felicia.” It’s used so much that we don’t even know the origin anymore.”

— Margaret Cho

107. “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

108. “I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.”

— Margaret Cho

109. “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

110. “A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don’t know where they are. Comics stick around.”

— Margaret Cho

111. “It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.”

— Margaret Cho

112. “I am star-struck but also I’ve known a lot of people for a long time. Like I’m super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I’ve known them for 17 years. So it’s kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!”

— Margaret Cho

113. “When it comes to children, my mom doesn’t believe in borders. She loves all children, and that’s a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.”

— Margaret Cho

114. “It’s okay for you to have relationships, but it’s not okay to talk about them. It’s not okay to be out or to be public about it. It’s not okay to be photographed with your partner.”

— Margaret Cho

115. “I love singing and that’s kind of my new thing.”

— Margaret Cho

116. “I’m lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.”

— Margaret Cho

117. “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

118. “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

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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

122. “If you’re going to be wrong, at least be hot.”

— Margaret Cho

123. “I feel sorry for anyone that I am obsessed with. I am worse than gum in your hair, very, very close to the roots.”

— Margaret Cho

124. “My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.”

— Margaret Cho

125. “I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.”

— Margaret Cho

126. “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

127. “I refer to myself as gay, but I’m married to a man.”

— Margaret Cho

128. “I have 3 dogs myself – I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn’t imagine my life without them.”

— Margaret Cho

129. “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

130. “I’ve worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some natural abilities, but it’s the technique that I’ve been learning from the best that keeps me going. I’m really honored to do it.”

— Margaret Cho

131. “I’m a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness – things like drag and raunchy comedy.”

— Margaret Cho

132. “I became a comedian because I didn’t want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.”

— Margaret Cho

133. “I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.”

— Margaret Cho

134. “The newest victims of the nation’s foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.”

— Margaret Cho

135. “The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they’re kind of like my family now. I’m always excited to come back to San Francisco.”

— Margaret Cho

136. “The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it’s not easy for me.”

— Margaret Cho

137. “It’s important to feel beautiful; it’s political to feel beautiful.”

— Margaret Cho

138. “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

139. “I am a big ‘Ellen’ fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids.”

— Margaret Cho

140. “I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.”

— Margaret Cho

141. “To be a feminist is to be alive.”

— Margaret Cho

142. “I think reality television is such a special talent.”

— Margaret Cho

143. “Christ’s purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.”

— Margaret Cho

144. “I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don’t.”

— Margaret Cho

145. “I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.”

— Margaret Cho

146. “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

147. “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

148. “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

149. “Comedy was all I ever wanted.”

— Margaret Cho

150. “To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That’s why gay marriage is really important.”

— Margaret Cho