Top 100 Sandra Bernhard Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’ve always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.”

— Sandra Bernhard

52. “I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.”

— Sandra Bernhard

53. “I don’t like surgery. I don’t like elective surgery, I don’t like surgery that you have to have.”

— Sandra Bernhard

54. “People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.”

— Sandra Bernhard

55. “I’m very much a humanist. I’m very much pro-choice. I’m very much politically correct.”

— Sandra Bernhard

56. “I’ve always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.”

— Sandra Bernhard

57. “When you’re watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?”

— Sandra Bernhard

58. “Maybe I’d be in a different place in my career if I’d had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.”

— Sandra Bernhard

59. “I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn’t feel lost or in my shadow.”

— Sandra Bernhard

60. “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

61. “I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she’s very cool. She’s out there and she’s involved.”

— Sandra Bernhard

62. “When you have a knowledge of history, it’s very soothing. When there’s continuity in your life, it’s soothing.”

— Sandra Bernhard

63. “New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.”

— Sandra Bernhard

64. “I’m studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.”

— Sandra Bernhard

65. “There are so few women in general who aren’t completely threatened and confused by other women’s success. It’s very disappointing.”

— Sandra Bernhard

66. “That disturbs people when they know they didn’t have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.”

— Sandra Bernhard

67. “I don’t like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?”

— Sandra Bernhard

68. “Be who you are and I’ll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.”

— Sandra Bernhard

69. “They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It’s money, you know.”

— Sandra Bernhard

70. “You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.”

— Sandra Bernhard

71. “The live show is different from the album. It’s different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.”

— Sandra Bernhard

72. “I like the energy of live performance.”

— Sandra Bernhard

73. “I’ve always been opposed to groups. I can’t believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.”

— Sandra Bernhard

74. “Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.”

— Sandra Bernhard

75. “Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren’t coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.”

— Sandra Bernhard

76. “I try to avoid people’s eyes because I don’t like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don’t need the responsibility.”

— Sandra Bernhard

77. “I didn’t belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.”

— Sandra Bernhard

78. “I’m the only actress in Hollywood who didn’t pay to have these lips.”

— Sandra Bernhard

79. “If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I’m going to be a woman of dignity.”

— Sandra Bernhard

80. “Once you’re heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don’t need to take out an announcement every day.”

— Sandra Bernhard

81. “I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn’t want to go all the way to New York and be that far away from home. So I thought maybe I’d be a rock ‘n’ roll singer or an opera singer.”

— Sandra Bernhard

82. “On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper – all your choices should be so easy.”

— Sandra Bernhard

83. “I’m trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.”

— Sandra Bernhard

84. “I don’t want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.”

— Sandra Bernhard

85. “I don’t think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.”

— Sandra Bernhard

86. “You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.”

— Sandra Bernhard

87. “I hate to judge everybody across the board.”

— Sandra Bernhard

88. “I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.”

— Sandra Bernhard

89. “From the time I was a kid, I’d never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.”

— Sandra Bernhard

90. “I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.”

— Sandra Bernhard

91. “I think I’ve drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she’s gone. She had it all.”

— Sandra Bernhard

92. “Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.”

— Sandra Bernhard

93. “I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it’s disgusting.”

— Sandra Bernhard

94. “I feel like you’ve gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it’s 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you’re in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.”

— Sandra Bernhard

95. “For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.”

— Sandra Bernhard

96. “Hip doesn’t really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.”

— Sandra Bernhard

97. “I don’t need to be redundant to the gay community about what’s wrong and what isn’t happening for them.”

— Sandra Bernhard

98. “There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.”

— Sandra Bernhard

99. “I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody’s trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that’s subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.”

— Sandra Bernhard

100. “I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn’t getting what I wanted from that person.”

— Sandra Bernhard