Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.
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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've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
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I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
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Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.
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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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It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.
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There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
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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.
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Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.
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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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When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.
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I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
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When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
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I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.
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I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.
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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.
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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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I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?
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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.
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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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Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.
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Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.
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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.