One rough patch is not the big picture.
ELLEN DEGENERESYou’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans.
More Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
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It’s hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I’m sure a lot of people made mistakes – they just were not documented the way they are now.
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Penguins mate for life. Which doesn’t really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It’s not like they’re gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.
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I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
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I don’t need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I’m going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.
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When I decided to have my character on the show come out, I knew I was going to have to come out, too. I never wanted to be the lesbian actress. I never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community. Ever. I did it for my own truth.
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I’m sure there’s somebody out there who doesn’t like Betty White because she’s short and has white hair.
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Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
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Yeah I’m thirty-six, but on the show I’m thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
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I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
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Dan: ‘Ah, well, I hope this didn’t have anything to do with me.’ Ellen: ‘No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.
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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.
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I know that experts say you’re more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn’t make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.
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I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn’t ringing. There wasn’t one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn’t work in Hollywood again.
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Above all, I strive to be the best I can – to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.
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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
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