Sandra Bernhard Quotes
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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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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 don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.
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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 believe in people living their lives and having privacy.
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The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.
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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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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'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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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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There will come a day when Anne Heche will be straight again.
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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 didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.
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If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.
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Gayness is a non-issue.
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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 don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.
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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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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 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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My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
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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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That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
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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.