Roseanne Barr Quotes

I want to talk about the things that people don't think you're allowed to talk about.

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

Whenever I see a taboo, I just think that's something we need to drag screaming out into the light and discuss. Because taboos are where our fears live, and taboos are the things that keep us tiny. Particularly for women.

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Taboo' certainly isn't a commentary on other types of period drama. It's just a different way of tackling one.

I'm always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit.

Music is the only place that I can have no taboos. In real life I have a lot of taboos, and I can't talk about everything easily.

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion.

It's kinda ridiculous what you can't say nowadays. You really can't say anything you believe! I think it's fricking ridiculous how sensitive everyone is to everything, how much things are frowned upon. How much stuff will cost you nowadays. I think it's fricking ridiculous that we can't - there's certain topics that you can't really say how you feel about.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

Political correctness is a minefield

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.

Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.

You don't need any courage today in Germany to make a movie about the Nazi time. You get all the subsidies, you get the TV stations, you get the good reviews. But you need courage to kick in the balls all the people that are still hiding under the blanket, and to say, "Oh, Adolf Hitler was maybe not so bad." And with my little Nazi jokes in Postal, I offended the Germans in a harsh time.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

I'm interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they're scary, and they're important to think about. I'm also wary about the fact that if you don't proceed with caution and understand what you're doing, you understand these things are realities that you're dealing with, they're real things.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

I probably not as likely to say what's on my mind, and I think most people aren't. It's not something I would want to always be doing. So that's why I'm not a politician.