Quotes by Sandra Bernhard

• 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.
• I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
• I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.
• I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
• I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
• I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
• When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.
• I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.
• Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.
• That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
• I like the energy of live performance.
• When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?
• 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.
• When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.
• Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
• There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
• There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
• I don't believe in karma.
• Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.
• I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
• 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.
• Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.
• Gayness is a non-issue.
• 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 don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.
• I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.