Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhardis an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is number 97 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth6 June 1955
CityFlint, MI
CountryUnited States of America
home world anger-and-fear
If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.
smart hippie school
From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.
feminism losing awareness
In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.
thinking enron-scandal white
I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt.
views years people
I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.
couple individual
It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.
sacrifice people comfort
Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.
thinking self disgusting
I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.
work-out vision stuff
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.
way certain
You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.
love-is uncomfortable situation
I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of.
knowledge soothing continuity
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
fabulous dresses bigs
Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.
growing-up kids thinking
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.