Quotes from Margaret Cho

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Babies got it going on!

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.

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!

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.

I'm always surprised when I get recognized.

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

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

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.

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

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

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.

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

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

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.

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.'

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide.