Rosie O'Donnell famous quotes

I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Sorry #Gun #Thinking

Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America...
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Country #America #Islam

The Second Amendment is not really a right.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Second Amendment #Amendments

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Want #Terrorist #Civilians

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Running #Odds #Looks

Are you fat because you're a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you're fat?
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#World #Modern #Fats

Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Children #Gay #Thinking

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Gun #Thinking #Should Have

I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7-building 7, which collapsed in on itself-it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes-7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Stupid #Believe #Fall

As a result of the [9/11] attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their countries Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Country #Two #America

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Inspiring #Mothers Day #Father

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #President #Sitting

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Believe #Thinking #Trying

I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Gone #Body #Rooms

You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Stupid #Views #Racist

Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Gay #Names #Adjectives

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Want #Standards #Homosexual

Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Children #World #Way

I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Lunch #World #Breakfast

I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Jobs #Believe #Heart

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Culture #Causes

I love to be able to support other women comics.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Support #Able

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Weight #Losing #Things To Do

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Dream #Children #Reality

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Boss #Trying #Done

Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Teacher #New York #School

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Vision #My Own #Floats

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Trying #Half #Film

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Pain #Heart #Broken

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Gun #Law #Wish

The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Teacher #Teaching #Kids

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Home #Thinking #People

There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Biblical #People #Parent

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Careers #Giving #Charity

My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Goal #Ruins #Comic

It's hard to find a reason that is not environmentally centered, that [doesn't have] something to do with global warming or what the planet is going through. The amount of tornadoesit's like three times the highest amount ever before, right? Something weird is happening with all of these natural catastrophes.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Three #Global Warming #Reason

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Inspiration #Thinking #Height

I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Makeup #Opening #Premieres

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Gone Away #Gone #Gray

I think life is easier if you're straight.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #Life Is #Easier

I know, people were like, "It's all right that she's gay, but she doesn't have to look so gay." Trust me - I'm never cutting my hair again!
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Cutting #Gay #Hair

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Religious #Believe #Equality

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Mother #Good Mother #Knows

I don't want only a career.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Careers #Want

Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Sex #Body #Tuning

To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #Giving #Adoption

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Believe #Fire #Towers

I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #Radio #Remember

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Children #Gay #Thinking

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #Way #Firsts

I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Gay #Thinking #You Choose

We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Spiritual #Art #Air

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Second Amendment #Arms #Bears

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Math #Thinking #Should Have

Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable[...]They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good[...]So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Real #Kids #Color

I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Mother #Kids #Florida

You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Cancer #Lying #People

"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Children #Couple #Responsible

Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Kids #Velvet #Lifetime

The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Years #Two #Television

I am one of the haunted.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

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Without art there is no hope.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Art #No Hope

Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Soul #Doe #Mass

When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Mother #Baby #Children

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Gay #Thinking #America

Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Cells #People #Scare

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #San Francisco #People

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #Doors #People

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Answers #Imagine #Interest

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Stupid #Tvs #Week

We really did. We got married.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Aries #Married

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Jobs

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #Watches #Down And

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Parent #Foster Parent

I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #Skills #Parent

It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Night #Community #Feelings

There's something about being a part of Broadway and going backstage. You know, like when I go to see a show now and going backstage and saying "Hi" to the cast. It's so thrilling. It's so beyond my wildest dreams from when I was a kid.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Dream #Kids #Broadway

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Children #Kindness #Thinking

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Mean #Thinking #Shells

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#College #Causes #Students

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Philosophy #Jealous #Thinking

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Falling In Love #Gay #Opposites

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Art #People #Everyday

The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Book #School #Church

I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Real #Thinking #Wish

I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Thinking #America #Years

When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, "This is who you are. You're okay in this lady, and you're a great, healthy, lovable and loving person." I try to accept myself.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Hard Work #Mirrors #Healthy

President Bush almost killed me.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#President #President Bush

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Children #Believe #People

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"
-- Rosie O'Donnell

#Children #Actors #Able