Latest Margaret Cho Quotes from Interviews

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• I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

  Margaret Cho

  Taste, Notion, Bad Taste

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Anger and comedy are really connected.

  Margaret Cho

  Comedy, Connected

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• That notion that we're in the post-racism, post-sexism world is so not true.

  Margaret Cho

  Racism, World, Sexism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

  Margaret Cho

  Art, Thinking, Outsiders

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I like to respond with jokes and to keep it as light as possible.

  Margaret Cho

  Light, Jokes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

  Margaret Cho

  Faces, Injustice, Should

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. And it has a transformative power.

  Margaret Cho

  Make Others Happy, Order, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Comedy is a noble art.

  Margaret Cho

  Art, Noble, Comedy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic.

  Margaret Cho

  Homophobic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I definitely support free speech.

  Margaret Cho

  Support, Speech, Free Speech

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There's lot of social censorship now, especially in this era of ubiquitous social media.

  Margaret Cho

  Media, Eras, Censorship

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's no way to connect with my family now who are in North Korea because it's so isolated. We don't even know who is still there and who is alive, and if they are, what they are doing. Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle this totalitarianism.

  Margaret Cho

  Korea, Battle, Half

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

  Margaret Cho

  Law, Taste, Modesty

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There's this idea like feminism is humorless and humorless in a way that's like a whistleblower. Like you're going to - you're going to make sure that nobody has any fun. And that's not true at all. I think feminism allows me to do what I do, and I'm so grateful to the idea of it and grateful to all the women that came before.

  Margaret Cho

  Fun, Grateful, Thinking

• I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.

  Margaret Cho

  Laughing, Faces, Jokes

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• I don't want to hurt anybody because of their looks. That's been used to hurt me so much.

  Margaret Cho

  Hurt, Looks, Want

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• 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

  Thinking, Guy, Special

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

  Margaret Cho

  Hurt, Body, Used

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• I just think women are funnier than men.

  Margaret Cho

  Men, Thinking

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• Now on Facebook I have all these 'friends' who used to bully me, and they're like, 'We're so proud! We love you!' They come to shows and want to take a picture, and they're like, 'Don't you remember us?' And I'm like, 'I'm sorry, I don't.' And I feel bad, but I feel good.

  Margaret Cho

  Sorry, Love You, Bully

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?

  Margaret Cho

  Grateful, Fighting, Rights

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

  Margaret Cho

  Comedian, Safe, Want

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

  Margaret Cho

  Artist, Sensitive, Being An Artist

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". June 21, 2016, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

• I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power.

  Margaret Cho

  Phones, Numbers, Email

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.