Best 96 quotes of Sandra Bernhard on MyQuotes

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

As a kid, I loved being loved, and still do. Who doesn't love being loved?

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

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.

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.

Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

... 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.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.

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.

Gayness is a non-issue.

Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind?

I always have kind of underneath feeling of peace of mind that I get from just the basic tenants of spirituality.

I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.

I believe in people living their lives and having privacy.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

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.

I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

I don't believe in karma.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

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?

I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.

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.

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.

I hate to judge everybody across the board.

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.

I like the energy of live performance.

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

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.

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.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

I'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

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.

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.

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.

I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.

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.

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.

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.