Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
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It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
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I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.
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If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.
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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.
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I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.
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I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.
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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.
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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.
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At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.
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You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.
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I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.
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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.
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Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.
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Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.
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How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind?
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I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.
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Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.
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Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.
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There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
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I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
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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.
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I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.
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They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.
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I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.
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I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.
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