Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho

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An American comedian and actress active since the 1960s, Margaret Cho has long been a source of memorable observations. Their thinking spans from Women to Beauty, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. 24 of Margaret Cho's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Women, Beauty, Humor, Funny, and Change. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is."

“I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.”

— Margaret Cho

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All Quotes by Margaret Cho

“My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.”

— Margaret Cho

Funny

“Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.”

— Margaret Cho

Beauty

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.”

— Margaret Cho

Change

“I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.”

— Margaret Cho

Beauty

“The power of visibility can never be underestimated.”

— Margaret Cho

Power

“Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.”

— Margaret Cho

Religion

“Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.”

— Margaret Cho

Humor

“I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.”

— Margaret Cho

Cool

“We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.”

— Margaret Cho

War

“I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.”

— Margaret Cho

Funny

“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.”

— Margaret Cho

Women

“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.”

— Margaret Cho

Birthday

“Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!”

— Margaret Cho

Smile

“It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.”

— Margaret Cho

Humor

“Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.”

— Margaret Cho

Politics

“Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?”

— Margaret Cho

Women

“Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.”

— Margaret Cho

Happiness

“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”

— Margaret Cho

Best

“Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.”

— Margaret Cho

Beauty

“Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.”

— Margaret Cho

Future