Sandra Bernhard Quotes

I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.

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.

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

it doesn't hurt to be alone sometimes. to go out on a cold night and
walk for a while. it might be dangerous, someone could hurt you, there
are sad scenes, passersby who leave a lifetime along the way for you
to pick up and examine, papers blowing in the wind with strange
messages, maybe something hopeful that you save and cherish forever.

I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.

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.

I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

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.

Kids need to be educated about sex and sexuality and if they're going to have sex, learn how to protect themselves and not get pregnant.

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.

I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.

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.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.

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

I hate to judge everybody across the board.

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

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

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

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

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

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

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

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.

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

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

When I was really little, I was skinny and people laughed at me for being skinny, so, we all pay our dues for the bodies we're in one way or another. But thank god I haven't needed to alter it to feel good about myself.

I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.

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

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

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.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

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

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

every night i say prayers for him just so he knows that when my day
ends and i'm ready to dream he will always be one of the last waking
thoughts i have and perhaps one of the first dreams of my sleeping
night...

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

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

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.

I've always gotten myself overly involved in supporting other women who've not always been as supportive in return.

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

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.

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 knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing ...

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

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

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

Gayness is a non-issue.

I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.

As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?

I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

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

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

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.

I don't believe in karma.

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

Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.

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.

I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.

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.

I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

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.

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