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Judy Gold Quotes

I have decided now that my mother should be the GPS woman, don’t you think? That would be fantastic: ‘Make a left in 11 miles. Get over now – I want you to be prepared. Turn right on Elm Street, I want to see if Myrna Rosenblatt is still alive. Make your second left by the Dairy Queen. Don’t go in, they’re anti-Semitic.’

– Judy Gold

I would love to get married, first of all, from my children’s perspective. People don’t think of children when they think of gay marriage, but I do have children, and for them to see their family validated as other families are validated and protected by our government, yes.

– Judy Gold

Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.

– Judy Gold

I didn’t want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

– Judy Gold

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.

– Judy Gold

It’s fun to be someone else.

– Judy Gold

There is no reason to be ashamed of who you are.

– Judy Gold

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

– Judy Gold

Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, ‘Oh, I’m not gonna vote,’ I just wanna tear their heart out.

– Judy Gold

I’ve done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother.

– Judy Gold

I’m going to be a ‘Chopped’ champion.

– Judy Gold

Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called ’25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.’ I had people coming up to me after the show saying, ‘I’m Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.’

– Judy Gold

‘The Judy Show’ would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don’t.

– Judy Gold

I always dreamed of living in N.Y.C.

– Judy Gold

I love being a Givenik Ambassador. Not only does it give me a platform to discuss my favorite charities, but I get to talk about my other favorite topic – ‘The Judy Show!’

– Judy Gold

My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

– Judy Gold

When I was a kid, I’d read about celebrities who didn’t want to talk to their fans after a show. I told myself, ‘That’s terrible, and I would never do that.’

– Judy Gold

When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

– Judy Gold

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

– Judy Gold

My partner and I had our first son in 1996, and the office became the baby’s room. Our second son was born in 2001, and the office became the kids’ room.

– Judy Gold

My two sons are the biggest pigs – always dirty, sweaty, burping and farting.

– Judy Gold

The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.

– Judy Gold

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn’t work with my family.

– Judy Gold

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.

– Judy Gold

For me, humor is everything!

– Judy Gold

I’ve gotten resistance for my entire career.

– Judy Gold

I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.

– Judy Gold

I’m not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an ‘edit’ button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking – but too polite or afraid to verbalize.

– Judy Gold

My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl – I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the ’70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on ‘Good Times’ seemed better than Clark, NJ.

– Judy Gold

Remember the phrase – ‘Act your age, not your shoe size?’ That didn’t apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing.

– Judy Gold

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