Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
ELLEN DEGENERESEmote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
ELLEN DEGENERESYou know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.
ELLEN DEGENERESSometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
ELLEN DEGENERESI care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.
ELLEN DEGENERESI 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.
ELLEN DEGENERESBe open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
ELLEN DEGENERESPeople give me such a hard time because I don’t wear dresses. What’s that got to do with anything?
ELLEN DEGENERESSo, 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?
ELLEN DEGENERESI get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
ELLEN DEGENERESI’m glad I’m funny. I’m glad I make people happy, because that’s very important. But I’m proud to be known as a kind person.
ELLEN DEGENERESBe kind to one another. Bye, bye.
ELLEN DEGENERESI learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
ELLEN DEGENERESI 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 put a basketball in front of George Clooney’s door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out.
ELLEN DEGENERESSome of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most
ELLEN DEGENERESAll the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. “Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?” “Yes, I have all those things! I’m alive!”
ELLEN DEGENERES