Top 180 Margaret Cho Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn’t know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.”

— Margaret Cho

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.”

— Margaret Cho

156. “I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn’t help us when it silences us.”

— Margaret Cho

157. “Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.”

— Margaret Cho

158. “As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.”

— Margaret Cho

159. “I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they’d laugh.”

— Margaret Cho

160. “Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.”

— Margaret Cho

161. “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

162. “I just want to love everyone. I don’t care if that sounds stupid. I want to love everyone.”

— Margaret Cho

163. “Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.”

— Margaret Cho

164. “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

165. “Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That’s a straight up Democrat move!”

— Margaret Cho

166. “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

167. “I get a lot from great ’90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.”

— Margaret Cho

168. “I was crazy about the song “Doot Doot,” so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.”

— Margaret Cho

169. “I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!”

— Margaret Cho

170. “If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?”

— Margaret Cho

171. “I’m taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It’s very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.”

— Margaret Cho

172. “We didn’t get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.”

— Margaret Cho

173. “In the early ’90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.”

— Margaret Cho

174. “I love fashion, I’m actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that’s really time-consuming.”

— Margaret Cho

175. “I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it’s very much what I’ve always wanted to do. It’s one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.”

— Margaret Cho

176. “I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the ’70s. I think it’s really great.”

— Margaret Cho

177. “We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.”

— Margaret Cho

178. “Why can’t all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can’t we can’t we all be considered possible love interests?”

— Margaret Cho

179. “Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.”

— Margaret Cho

180. “I don’t like pot anymore – I forget why.”

— Margaret Cho

181. “I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.”

— Margaret Cho

182. “I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.”

— Margaret Cho

183. “Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.”

— Margaret Cho

184. “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

185. “I love New York. I love working here.”

— Margaret Cho

186. “That’s part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.”

— Margaret Cho

187. “That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn’t make any sense.”

— Margaret Cho

188. “People are really terrified of me. I don’t know why, I’m very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.”

— Margaret Cho

189. “I just think women are funnier than men.”

— Margaret Cho

190. “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

191. “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

192. “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

193. “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

194. “I’m always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.”

— Margaret Cho