MARGARET CHO

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.

Babies got it going on!

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

I don't really know what 'selling out' is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody's buying it. I would love to go mainstream, but my comedy is too edgy. It's always too dirty. It's always too filthy. I'm dying to sell out. But I love doing comedy, I love touring, and I think I would do everything for free.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.