Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.
At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.
At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.
Ellen's very mad at me. She's says if I want to start a war in the press, she's not the person to start with.
Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.
For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.
Gay men, if they've been straight and turn gay, they're gay, honey.
Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing.
Gayness is a non-issue.
Growing up in the '60s and the '70s, things certainly seemed more simplistic and easier to digest.
Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.
How far can we go? How much can we absorb and still have some peace of mind?
I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.
I am studying Kabbalah and it's really changed my life. A lot of other people are studying Kabbalah. I don't take direct responsibility for it.
I believe in people living their lives and having privacy.
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 definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.
I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.
I don't believe in karma.
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.
I don't need to be redundant to the gay community about what's wrong and what isn't happening for them.
I don't take things so personally in this business anymore.
I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.
I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.
I hate to judge everybody across the board.
I like doing new material in LA. It's very challenging.
I like the energy of live performance.
I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.
I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.
I think it's a woman's responsibility to her friends and to other women to say, I know it's hard, but it's gotta come together.
I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.
I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.
I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.
I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.
I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.
I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
I'm working slowly on my fourth book. There are a lot of career distractions going on right now.
I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.
I've always gotten myself overly involved in supporting other women who've not always been as supportive in return.
I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.
If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.
If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.
In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
It's been so long since I've been that fascinated by somebody's sexuality.
It's hard to be in the business, period.
It's nobody's business how you do something.
It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.
It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.
Kids need to be educated about sex and sexuality and if they're going to have sex, learn how to protect themselves and not get pregnant.
My house painter, Herminio, has been painting my place in LA for the past 10 years. He comes every year and a half.
New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.
Once you're heterosexual and comfortable with that, you don't need to take out an announcement every day.
Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.
People have to adjust to what is happening now. And they have to become compassionate. That's something people don't want to deal with.
Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.
That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.
The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.
The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.
The Stones have always evoked that kind of '60s and '70s sexual awakening.
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.
There will come a day when Anne Heche will be straight again.
There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.
They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.
Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.
This person at the next table is a fabulous drag queen. I didn't get it until I just looked up.
To me, the most important thing in this age is just to let people be.
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.
When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.
When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?
You have some people trying to fake a voice.
You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.
You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.
Sandra Bernhard has written three books called Confessions of a Pretty Lady, May I Kiss You on the Lips and Miss Sandra Love, Love and Love.
Before Sandra Bernhard starting acting, she was a stand up comedian.
According to Comedy Central, Sandra Bernhard is listed as number 97 on list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.
Sandra Bernhard used to work as a manicurist for a upscale Los Angeles salon.
Sandra Bernhard had a daughter, named Cicely Yasin, in July of 1998.
Sandra Bernhard was in the Sesame Street movie Follow That Bird as a restaurant waitress.
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