I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
ELLEN DEGENERESPlease 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.
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If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don’t memorize numbers anymore.
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So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn’t with all the layers… I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says ‘open here.’ Is that sarcasm?
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I had everything I’d hoped for, but I wasn’t being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn’t like me for being… me.
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People give me such a hard time because I don’t wear dresses. What’s that got to do with anything?
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
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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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Most people don’t get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It’s important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy.
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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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I put a basketball in front of George Clooney’s door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out.
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Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.
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You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.
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So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we’ve checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.
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I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!
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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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The way I see it… If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you’re doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.
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My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you’re kidding?… Noooo… as funny as that is, I’m not
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I didn’t go to college at all, any college, and I’m not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I’m a huge celebrity.
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You’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans.
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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.
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What goes up must come down, which is why I don’t wear tube tops.
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I was coming home from kindergarten – well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It’s good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
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One rough patch is not the big picture.
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I don’t think I remember my first memory.
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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.
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I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.
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When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it’s hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn’t feel like me.
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