21 Sandra Bernhard Quotes

Sandra Bernhard quotes

1. My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.

2. 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.

3. The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

4. If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

5. Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

6. 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.

7. Madonna's got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.

1. 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.

2. It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

3. Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. 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?

9. I've always allowed myself to go on journeys creatively and emotionally, and never put, like, limits on myself.

10. Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

11. There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.

12. 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.

13. Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.

14. That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.