Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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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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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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The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.
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When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
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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 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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Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.
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New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.
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I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.
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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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The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.
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It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.
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I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.
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If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.
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As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?
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I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.
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I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.
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Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
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I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.
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Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.
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I like the energy of live performance.
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I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
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Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.
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I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.