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Ellen DeGeneres
27 quotes
“I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] — I mean, I think this part is great — but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause — 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored...”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic." "Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in?!”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm a — I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her — the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection....”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: "That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going....”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Point... And I Do Have One. New York: Bantam Books, 1995
“I mean, I feel like I'm in a unique position as host, because think about it: What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a strange woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2001 Emmy Awards (4 November 2001)
“Yes, we're lazy. Yet we also can't seem to sit still. So we've started making things like GO-GURT. That's yogurt for people on the go. Let me ask you, was there a big mobility problem with yogurt before? How time-consuming was it, really? [pretending to be on the phone:] "Hello?...Oh, hi, Tom...oh, I've been dying to see that movie...Umm, no...I just opened up some yogurt...Yeah, I'm in for the night...No, not even later-it's the kind with fruit on the bottom. Well, have fun. Thanks anyway.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing ... chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too.”
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“I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With all of our differences, we [members of the audience] all have one thing in common, we're all gay. Now there are people out there [in audience] going “Do they think we’re strange because we’re here? Do we look strange? I told you this would happen. We’re not going to understand a word of this.” Seriously, though, if you're here you're probably gay. I mean, you have tendencies, you've thought about it. Now there are people [in audience] going “I have thought about it. Does that mean I'm strange? I'm not strange. Is that how they get us?”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Procrastinate now, don't put it off.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What could be going so wrong that they need to check on you that often....'My bra's in my butt!!'....'Rachel' (mouths pointing to her butt 'My bra's in my butt' and again 'My bra's in my butt' shakes head no and air spells out B-U-T-T and then motions her to come here). I'd like to see how far they'd go to help you when you tell them your bra's in your butt.' 'Oh my, it's in the butt...do you need a different size or color? I don't know what to do about the bra in the butt. I'll get the manager I don't know.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen DeGeneres, commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986
“I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes when I am driving I get so angry at inconsiderate drivers that I want to scream at them. But then I remember how insignificant that is, and I thank God that I have a car and my health and gas. That was phrased wrong — normally you wouldn't say, thank God I have gas.”
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“You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995
“For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What Ellen DeGeneres Knows for Sure (She Thinks)", The December 2009 issue of O magazine
“I knew if I came out, there was a possibility I would lose my career. But I didn't do it for my career, I did it for me to live my truth," she says. "I thought, 'I don't want to live and have any shame whatsoever.' I should be proud of who I am, and I don't care if people approve or not. It is who I am.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen Degeneres talking about her coming out in 1997 with Oprah Winfrey, on the interview on 'Oprah' show on 9th of November 2009
“But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when every thing is taken away from you and you have nothing.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen on Oprah show, 9th of November 2009
“I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen on Oprah show, 9th of November 2009
“I think I'm healthier than I've ever been. I'm happier than I've ever been. I'm more myself. I can't stress that enough," Ellen says. "I think kindness is the key to yourself and to other people. … I think I found out who I was, and I think I really try to be a better person every single day. And she [sc. Portia de Rossi, her wife] makes me better.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen's interview on Oprah show, 9th of November 2009
“I just like observing people — it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Redbook, January 2006
“My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it...”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen Degeneres hosting Paul McCartney and Friends Live: PETA's Millennium Concert, 1999
“I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From her website; quoted in "Why Ellen Went Vegan", in peta.org (9 November 2009)
“Death, disease, famine”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ellen: I think one of the turning points in my life came a few years ago. I started going to sleep at night just talking to myself, saying, "You're perfect just the way you are," because I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good. Just those affirmations every night changed my belief in who I was because I had been told for so long, over and over, that I was something else. That brings us to another agreement: Don't make assumptions—because we assume that when people do something or say something to you, they mean just what we think they mean.”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen DeGeneres' interview with The Four Agreements Author don Miguel Ruiz which appeared in the October 2001 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
“I wish that I wasn't seen differently. I wish that people looked at me and just saw that I was a good person with a good heart. And that wants to make people laugh. And that's who I am. I also happen to be gay. And I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called. I mean, there are couples that have been together, 30 years, 40 years. And all of a sudden, they lose their house, you know, the taxes kill them, because it's different because they're not married. Everything is taken away just because. You know, with Sept. 11, there are a lot of people that lost their partner and didn't get the same benefits. It's not fair. And at the same time I know there are people watching right now saying, you know, it's sick it's wrong, it's this. And it's like, I can't convince them that I'm not sick or wrong, that there's nothing wrong with me. You know, I can live my life and hope that things change, and hope that we're protected as any other couples”
Ellen DeGeneres (born 1958) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ellen Degeneres talking about being gay with Stone Phillips in an interview for Dateline NBC, Nov. 8, 2004