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 DEGENERESI like to try new things because I get bored so easily.
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Really, he called me that? Ellen DeGenerate? I’ve been getting that since fourth grade. I guess I’m happy I could give him work.
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I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He’s the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor’s wife right now.
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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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One rough patch is not the big picture.
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I don’t consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.
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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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Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.
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We’re told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?
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What’s New Orleans without music? And what’s music without dancing?
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The world is filled with negativity. I want people to watch me and think, “I feel good, and I’m going to make somebody else feel good today.
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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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Procrastination isn’t the problem. It’s the solution. It’s the universe’s way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.
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I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.
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I’m a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.
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It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it’s okay again. That’s what meditation is to me.
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