Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have…

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I…

— Sandra Bernhard

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them…

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She…

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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…

— Sandra Bernhard

I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I…

— Sandra Bernhard

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to…

— Sandra Bernhard

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at…

— Sandra Bernhard

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and…

— Sandra Bernhard

“it doesn't hurt to be alone sometimes. to go out on a cold night and walk for a while. it might be…

— Sandra Bernhard

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to.…

— Sandra Bernhard

I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My…

— Sandra Bernhard

I really thought I wanted to be a musical-comedy star, but I lived in Phoenix and didn't want to go all the…

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.

— Sandra Bernhard

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

— Sandra Bernhard

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.

— Sandra Bernhard

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing.

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

My family wasn't the Brady Bunch. They were the Broody Bunch.

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard

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

— Sandra Bernhard