I admire people who know they can’t sing. There are so many people out there who can’t sing, but they think they can, so they sing a lot.
ELLEN DEGENERESThe 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.
More Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
-
-
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?
ELLEN DEGENERES -
My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you’re kidding?… Noooo… as funny as that is, I’m not
ELLEN DEGENERES -
It would be horrible to live with someone who didn’t like the same things you like.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
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.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
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.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
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.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
People give me such a hard time because I don’t wear dresses. What’s that got to do with anything?
ELLEN DEGENERES -
I don’t consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
When there’s time for whistling, there’s a lot of time on a show.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
All 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 -
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.
ELLEN DEGENERES -
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?
ELLEN DEGENERES -
Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.
ELLEN DEGENERES