Quotes & Jokes by Sandra Bernhard / page 3

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

I think comedy is definitely a more male oriented field - social commentary, political commentary - I think it's just easier for men to get up and say whatever they want. But I don't think there's that many women who really want to put their toe in the water either. It's not the easiest life or lifestyle to get out there and kind of shake the shit up.

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

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

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

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.

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

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

I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.

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

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

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.

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.