Quotes from Sandra Bernhard

Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.

I like the energy of live performance.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

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.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

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

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.

I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.

I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.