Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!' — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls and old gay men together - there's a safety. They make a shield from all of the bad things they've experienced in the world. They make a home together. There are no songs about that. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share
I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's also very un-Christian, if you think about the way Christ was and Christ's teachings. This is not loving. This is anger. This is hatred. This is bigotry. And it's wrong. — Margaret Cho Copy Share
