Margaret Cho Quotes

Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

We did it just because it was forbidden.

Action requires co-operation, but in general if you set your face against custom, people will set their faces against you. They cannot tell whether you are right or wrong, but they know that you are guilty of a pragmatical assumption of superiority over them which they do not like.

I know women that act queeny, I know men that are straight that act queeny, and I know gay men that act queeny... To me, those are people who think the rules don't apply to them.

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

It feels like breaking rules is almost a given now on TV.

It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.

To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

I learned how to break the rules without asking.

That's what snowboarders do: we break rules.

There's a bunch of rules that I want to break. I have a rule-breaking streak.

Yeah, I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules.

It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.

I break rules all the time.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.