Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.
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I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.
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I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.
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I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.
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From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.
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I hate to judge everybody across the board.
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I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.
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I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.
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On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy.
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I like the energy of live performance.
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Barbara Bush has her finger on the pulse of America. Im so glad shes back and more compassionate than ever, ... Thats right, of course people just sat around New Orleans, boring, uninspired, soulless New Orleans, and dreamed of someday relocating to the Astrodome. Oh, dear Lord, if only I could leave my unhappy existence and head on up to wonderful Houston and live with my friends side by side in a spacious football stadium, my life would be so much richer and complete.
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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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For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.
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I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.
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I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.
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You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.
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I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.
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I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.
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... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.
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People feel like if they don't have a voice or a name or the spotlight, then they're invisible. But if you can't wake up in your world, in your life, with your family and your friends, and enjoy it, then forget it. All bets are off, because that's all anybody is guaranteed.
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The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.
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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 would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
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I think there are always different times in your life when you go, "Oh, god. I wish I were traditionally pretty. My life would be so much easier." But then you get through that, and you go, "Well, I'm not."