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Margaret Moran Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, fashion designer, author, and singer-songwriter. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after creating and starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl , and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.

She has also had endeavors in fashion and music, and has her own clothing line. Cho has also frequently supported LGBT rights and has won awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, Asian Americans, and the LGBT community.

As an actress, she has acted in such roles as Charlene Lee in It's My Party and John Travolta's FBI colleague in the action movie Face/Off. Cho was part of the cast of the TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, in which she appeared as Teri Lee, a paralegal assistant. In 2012 she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her guest starring role as Dictator Kim Jong-il on 30 Rock. Wikipedia  

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Margaret Cho Quotes

“I can't even look at those "women's magazines" anyway. I love fashion, but I look at the pictures of the skinny models, and they're wearing clothes I can't even fit on my fingers. And I look at that and I think, if that is what a woman is supposed to look like, then I must not be one.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour

Love , Women , Fashion , Thinking

“I think it's very important to feel beautiful. I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're Queer, because if you're Queer you have to take on the world every single day of your life, so you have to feel beautiful to survive.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Beautiful Tour

Life , World , Beauty , Feeling

“There are still lynchings. And while we don't use ropes anymore, there are more efficient ways of doing it.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Way

“I would rather have a gay child. If you have a gay son, you know he's not gonna be shooting up his high school. That would get in the way of yearbook.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

School , Way

“It's just that it's been my experience in having sex with some straight men that the sex is over when he gets off. And I don't accept that. I want to have an orgasm. Not right now! This is the Isaac Stern Auditorium! No, I want to have one. I'll put a chalk board over the bed. One… one.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour

Men , Sex

“The quiet messages that affect and alter the way we view ourselves are controlled by an elite group of ignant men.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, HATING ONESELF

Men , Way

“My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, WAR

War , Peace , Thinking , Dependency

“The National Enquirer published this thing called the "Chow like Cho Diet," which was this fake diet that I never went on, with all these fake quotes from me, like "When I was a little girl, I was raised on rice and fish. So when I get heavy, I go back to that natural Asian way of eating." That is so Mulan. You can almost hear the mandolin in the background. "When I was a little girl, I grow up on the rice paddy… and although we have no food, I have a tendency to put on weight."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

Food , Way , Quotes , Girl

“And I got so drunk, I got so drunk that I actually woke up thinking, "Should I get up and pee, or just pee in the bed?" Actually weighing the pros and the cons. "Well, it'll be warm for a minute… it's a big bed, I'll just roll over… I'll just blame it on that guy!"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Drunk With Power CD

Guy , Thinking

“I was working on this movie and the makeup artist was just so ugly! I just wanted to say "Physician, heal thyself!" She looked exactly like Aaron Neville, and she was trying her hardest to make me look exactly like Aaron Neville. This one time, she leaned into my face with the mascara wand almost touching my eye and she says, "Whass my name?"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Drunk With Power CD

Time

“I am not gonna die because some network executive thought I was fat! It's so wrong! It's so wrong that women are asked to live up to this skinny ideal that is totally unattainable. For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

Women , Time

“Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

Men , God

“We have been threatened by a local conservative group who said they will picket the show unless I am fired and taken off the bill and replaced by someone else. Sorry. I am now more excited than ever to meet y'all. Personally, if you are going to picket a show, fine, but the fact that you are picketing my show, means you are stepping up to me, which means some very bad things could possibly happen to you.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Weblog

Personality

“The dismissal of our anger as a racial minority is worse than any slur or epithet because it undermines our ability to react to it.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY

Anger

“Women and eating disorders have such a long history, but now I see it happening to gay men. And when it comes to anorexia, bulimia, body dysmorphia, gay men are far worse than women. They take it way more seriously. "Why diet when you can take crystal meth?"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Women , Men , Way , History

“I am super glad about your four-hour erection, but I was wondering, where is the cure for AIDS? (regarding Viagra, Cialis, etc)”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, DEATH

“Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. A matter of taste, a whim, an eye, a beholder, an opinion, a spin, light crossing the frame, paint, projection. The moment. Context.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Weblog

Beauty , Light , Painting

“We are the scavenger minority, picking at the carcass of civil rights, trying to get our measly share, so very far from the idea of fair…but what do you expect? We are the bottom-feeders of a multicultural fishtank, we get pushed to the back of the bus by more vocal minorities that have been there and don't want to return.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Idea

“My mom used to give me messages like this: "Ummmmmmm… Scott called… IS HE THE GAY??!!" "Well, God, mom, I don't know if he's the gay… that's a lot of pressure on just one guy. He has to do the parade all by himself! 'I'm here! I'm queer!… I guess I'm the only one.'"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

God , Guy , Moms

“If you've ever bought drugs before, you understand that for some bizarre reason you have to feign this relationship with your dealer. It's like you're not really going to him to buy drugs. You're going for a social visit. Drugs are the surprise that just happens when you get there. "Oh, hash? I didn't know!" And he's talkin' to you and you're tryin' to be interested, you know, "Oh yeah? No, really…I love Foghat. No, seriously." And inside you're like, "Just fuckin' give it! I hate you. Your house smells like cat pee!"”

Margaret Cho

Why do all drug dealers' houses smell like cat pee?
From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour

Love , Hate , Cats , Understanding

“Since the unfortunate victims pay for the pleasure themselves these are HIGH CRIMES that will go UNPUNISHED because they are self-inflicted.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, HATING ONESELF

Pleasure

“I am secretly a costume drama queen. Oo, I love me some Merchant Ivory films! I do! If there is a petticoat and Helena Bonham Carter, already I can feel the tears well up in my eyes. I love me some period films! And I know that I will never be in them. I will never be in any of these movies, unless I am laying down on my side smoking some opium. And I get offered movie roles all the time, but I say, "No! No! I don't want to play a manicurist. I don't want to play a really pissed-off liquor store owner. I don't want to go nowhere with a chicken under my arm. I don't want to play an exceptionally good student, I do not want to get off a tour bus and take numerous photographs, I do not ever want to utter the phrase, 'Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond'! I don't want to write down all my memoirs about being a geisha!"”

Margaret Cho

What it is, is that I cannot run up a wall!!
From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Love , Feeling , Tear , Time

“If we don't talk about this epidemic we are going to die.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, SPEAKING UP

“It is a good life, if I watch myself. Kind of like when I used to diet, but now instead of limiting calories, I will not allow negative self-talk. I cut out insults like I cut out carbs and it is hard as hell because I crave self-abuse like hot, fresh sourdough bread, but you know you have to be nice to you if you are going to live together.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Weblog

Life , Hell

“I gave a LOT of unnecessary head. And I know that guys are going to argue with me about this. "Oh, Margaret, there's no such thing as unnecessary head! All head is necessary! All head is wanted and needed in the world. I run a home for unnecessary head."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

World , Guy , Home

“I have never had any desire to play a maid, a liquor store owner kicking a black person out of my store, a rude and harried waitress, a worldly-wise acupuncturist, an early-rising, loose black cotton pants wearing elderly woman practicing tai chi in the park, a manicurist, a prostitute, a student in an English as a Second Language course, a purveyor of exotic mushrooms and ginseng, an exchange student, a newscaster covering gang warfare in Chinatown, a woman drowning my newborn baby in a bowl, a daughter crying with my mom over our constant battle between East and West yet finally coming together over a particularly intense game of mahjong…a young girl being raped and killed by GIs in the Killing Fields, a woman balancing a basket of any kind on my head…committing suicide because my white lover did not come back to Japan after the war, or having him come back for me and fooling him successfully for years and years thinking I am a woman when really I'm a dude, as if my race castrates me so much this deception is completely feasible…”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, PIGEONHOLING PEOPLE

War , Fools , Girl , Game

“Yet the powers that be haven't quite considered the strength of our sheer numbers.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

“The military posts vengeance on their websites, and seeks publicity for their displays of inhumanity.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, WAR

“They (the government) are unfazed by any amount of travesty, loss, tragedy, death, and destruction.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, WAR

Death , Loss

“As you read their names, imagine who they loved, who loved them, and those those left behind cope now without them. They're never coming home. Never.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, DEATH

Love , Home , Imagination , Reading

“I actually adore that kind of hate mail, because if all you have to fight me with is prejudice then I have already won the battle, and eventually I'm gonna win this war. I wrote about hate mail on my website, and posted all that I had received, along with the names and e-mail addresses of the guilty…(this) actually prompted an incredible number of the haters to recant and apologize.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Hate , War , Fight

“We are a nation divided which is obvious. The problem is, the division is keeping this monarchy in place.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

Problem

“When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS

Family , Color , Way , Dance

“The Pope was so sick he couldn't even come to the window, he was so sick all he could manage is a "BLAAARGH (vomiting)". But even that "blargh" was anti-gay.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Assassin CD

“All of them who need to tell ladies to stop talking about sports and stay on the sidelines, because we are baby-making machines.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, FEMINISM

Sport , Baby

“I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I just went, "*cough, cough, cough* You wanna egg rorr?"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Guy

“Although it might be that we can't expect change overnight, there was really a rapid shift in the way we view politics.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

Way , Change

“The majority should not be allowed to rule simply because its the majority. The majority is responsible for slavery, segregation, lynching, denying women and minorities the vote, Japanese internment and a million other injustices and inhumanities.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS

Women

“I vowed to myself if I ever go to one of these award shows I'm gonna wear some kind of a bird. So I went to the Grammys last years I had a dress made out of peacock feathers. And I didn't win a Grammy, was named worst dressed. And that's impressive, because if you win a Grammy you had to just beat out what, three, four people? But if you're worst dressed you beat fifteen thousand people! I beat Mary J. Blige! I beat Lil' Kim!”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Assassin CD

People , Bird

“It was not our right to have become the world's bully and start this war in the first place.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, WAR

War , World

“Why is this all so hard? Why do these old men need it so hard?”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, WAR

Men

“I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

“[on reacting to racism] I don't wanna be the better person. I don't wanna rise above it. I do wanna sink down to their level. I am not gonna turn the other cheek. "I'mma gonna show you what cheek I'mma turn, OK!"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Personality

“We are supposed to be ruled by ourselves, but I have yet to see any evidence of it in our lifetime.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

“This is a very strange time we're living in, and I would feel a little bit better if George W. Bush could say the word "nuclear" correctly. You would have thought somebody would have said something by now. At the very least, Condi would have got up in his face, "Foo', it's NU-CLE-AR! Imma have'ta write it down fo'ya!…I'm makin' flash cards for the President. This is…[shaking her head] mm-mmmm."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Feeling , Time

“I get nervous when people say to me, "I just can't tell any of you Asians apart!" Um, why do you have to tell us apart? Are we gonna be separated for some reason? I can't tell us apart! I was not born with a chip in my neck that would automatically identify every Asiatic person that I would come across. "beebeebeebeebeep Filipino."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

People , Personality

“Its unacceptable to me, both as an American and as a human being.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, NATIONALISM

“I see evidence of my own racist brainwashing when exploring the landscape of current foreign policy.”

Margaret Cho

about North Korea
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, MENTAL COLONIZATION

“Haven't we heard enough from these ancient white guys? There is this silent agreement that everyone everywhere has made regarding old white men. They are the bottom line, the last word, no matter what. The saying "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings is erroneous, because women who are fat are never listened to."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY

Women , Men , Guy , Singing

“Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't give too much information, if I don't go there, it's like I was never there in the first place. I noticed this most right after September 11, when there were no gays or lesbians invited to give their opinion about what was going on. There were no women invited to give their opinion. There were hardly any people of color invited, and if they were, they were Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans talking about the violence that they'd experienced because they shared the same skin color as the terrorists, which is heinous and dumb!”

Margaret Cho

That's like arresting Emmanuel Lewis because Gary Coleman punched that woman!
From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

Women , People , Color , Silence