Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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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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Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
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My family wasn't the Brady Bunch. They were the Broody Bunch.
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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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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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That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
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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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I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.
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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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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 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."
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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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Kids need to be educated about sex and sexuality and if they're going to have sex, learn how to protect themselves and not get pregnant.
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There will come a day when Anne Heche will be straight again.
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Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.
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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'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.
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I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.
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Random things make me laugh.
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You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.
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I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
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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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If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.
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Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.