Ellen DeGeneres famous quotes

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Inspirational #Successful #Soul

You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Growing Up #Kids #Sarcasm

Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Responsibility #Thinking #Animal

One rough patch is not the big picture.
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#Rough Patches #Bigs #Big Picture

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
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#Inspirational #Acceptance #Knowing

I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.
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#Stupid #Thinking #People

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you
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#Teenager #Enough #Attacking

I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.
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#Ferrari #Done #Lost

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
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#Funny #Beautiful #Mom

There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Thinking #People #Secret

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Law #Legal System #Lawyer

If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live.
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#Healthy #Looks #Way

Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?
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#Hilarious #Gay #Judging

Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Yesterday #Tomorrow #Being The Best

Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn’t threaten you or who you are.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Children #Judgement #Want

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Morning #Nice #Silence

We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Mistake #Warning #Body

I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Nice #Worry #Would Be

Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.
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#Sex #Men #Asking

I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Coffee #Design #Tables

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.
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#Giving #Interesting #Challenges

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.
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#Art #Wall #Thinking

There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.
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#Talking #People #Laughing

You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'
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#Funny Relationship #Breathing #Nerves

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
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#Life #Butterfly #Average

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
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#Inspirational #Success #Graduation

It would be horrible to live with someone who didn't like the same things you like.
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#Would Be #Horrible

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?
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#New Orleans #Dancing #Without Music

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
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#Children #Aunt #Discipline

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
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#Balance #Life Is #Lows

I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.
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#Dog #Home #Cat

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
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#Inspirational #Funny #Hilarious

It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Talking #Important #Energy

Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Crazy #Thinking #People

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Talking #Giving #Energy

Haters are my motivators
-- Ellen DeGeneres

Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Writing #Character #Interesting

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
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#Baby #Children #Freedom

My dream guests are really not so much celebrities. They're people who are actually interesting and they're doing something interesting with their lives or had an interesting experience in some way. I really enjoy talking to regular, everyday people.
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#Dream #Talking #People

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.
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#Thinking #Political #President

I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day.
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#Airplane #Hair #Want

Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.
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#Add #Three #Attention

And the bottom line is we are who we are-we look a certain way, we talk a certain way, we walk a certain way. I strut because I’m a supermodel, and sometimes I gallop for fun. When we learn to accept that, other people learn to accept us. So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Fun #People #Hug

Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most
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#Teach

[Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Travel #Believe #Flames

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
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#Helping Others #People #Position

It's nice when people love you....for you.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Nice #Love You #People

Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
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#Inspirational #Yesterday #Lessons

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.
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#Inspirational #Philosophy #Way

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.
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#Funny #Memories #Hangover

One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.
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#Magazines #Closets #Time Magazine

Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.
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#Sleep #Naps #Fireplaces

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#People #Important #Negative

I don't know what people are scared of...maybe they think their children will be influenced by gay marriage, but I've got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. Everywhere I looked - heterosexuals. And they did not influence me. It's time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Children #Gay #Thinking

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Patience #Keys #Meditation

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.
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#Work Out #Weight #Matter

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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#Funny #Life #Birthday

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Inspirational #Fear #Thinking

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
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#Christmas #Holiday #Cheesy

I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
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#Goes On #Saws #Vegan

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Spring #Moving #Want

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Asparagus #Soup #Comedy

I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Vegetarian

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Animal #Compassion #Rights

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Love #Hurt #Laughter

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Funny #Bullying #Hurt

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Design #Special #Hobbies

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Inspiring #Honesty #Kindness

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Fun #Unique #Thinking

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
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#Inspirational #Funny #Hilarious

Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away.
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#Hilarious #Running #Running Away

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#People #Judging #Judgement

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.
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#Curves #Driving #Speed

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
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#Funny #Life #Cutting

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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#Inspiring #Compassion #Taught

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.
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#Regret #Trying #Friendly

Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Spiritual #Phones #Long

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Fun #Believe #Tired

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
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#Inspiring #Success #Failure

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Fitness #Food #Health

Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.
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#Bye #Be Kind #Kind

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
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#Differences #Stay Positive #Bigs

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.
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#Orange #Giving #Life Gives You Lemons

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

#Funny #Cute #Hilarious

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
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#Inspiring #Women #Eye

My life is perfect even when it's not.
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#Perfect #Life Is

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
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#Thinking #Feelings #Okay

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.
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#Women #Book #Hard Work

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Hurt #Eye #Animal

Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Wall #Party #Dark

And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Doors #Smell #Doe

If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.
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#Saying Thank You

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Graduation #Integrity #Mean

I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2."
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Yoga #Eye #Silence

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. Its been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch TV. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Two #Numbers #Phones

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.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Fun #Car #Thank God

The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Believe #Gay #People

It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Challenges #Important #Be True To Yourself

Portia and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in those 4 years, I don't think we hurt anyone else's marriage. I asked all of my neighbors and they say they're fine
-- Ellen DeGeneres

#Hurt #Gay #Thinking