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 DEGENERESI never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle
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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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The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not.
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Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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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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I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.
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The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.
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I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don’t harbour resentment.
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I don’t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It’s weird when I say I’m 53. It just is crazy that I’m 53. I think I’m very immature. I feel like a kid. That’s why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can’t do certain things anymore – like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
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We can sit and worry about what’s going to happen to us two weeks from now. I’d rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.
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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.
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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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Come on, if you don’t win tonight it doesn’t mean you’re not a good person, it just means you’re not a good actor.
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Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
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I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.
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Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most
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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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Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.
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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.
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I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!
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I don’t think I remember my first memory.
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I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle
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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.
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There’s nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.
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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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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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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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