Quotes by Ellen Degeneres - Page 3

Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Belonging
Easy
Lost
Pretty
Define
Takes
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We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Happy
Bullying
Chaos
Common
Creating
Differences
Focus
Negativity
World
Everybody
Lot
Much
Be Happy
Which
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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 Degeneres / Comedian
Kids
Comedian
Done
Filled
Imagine
Observing
People
Love Good People
Love Good Done
Big Part
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So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Marriage
Relationship
Comfortable
Drama
Easier
Leaving
Not Knowing
Staying
Versus
Prefer
Expect
So Many People
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I 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 Degeneres / Comedian
Bored
Nurture
Work Music Always
Work Music Passion
Easily
Label
Record Label
Tv Show
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Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Funny
Humor
Be Kind
Bullying
Comedy
Example
Feelings
Form
Most
Just
Somebody
Based
Funny Humor People
Find
Without
Else
Getting
Expense
Hurting
Major
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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Big Picture
Compassion
Ego
Purpose
Stuck
Picture
Love Work Believe
Connect
Getting
Planet
Unfolds
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I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Managers
Belong
Every Time
List
Political Party
Potentially
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People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Asking
Decided
House
Too Much
Love Me People
Love Me Children
After
Around
Constantly
Far
Fed
Glass
Ultimately
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If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Bunch
Show Business
Admit
Business Yourself People
To Be Honest
Wanting
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I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Equal
Female
Staff
Three
Weird
Comedians
Writers
Guys
Same Thing
Women Writers
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Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Gay
Night
Release
Child
Also
Love Freedom Me
Around
Babies
Before
Even
Melt
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My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Dad
Mom
Bigger
Christian
Higher
Higher Power
Rely
Scientist
Support
Thinking
Control
Idea
Gives
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But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when everything is taken away from you and you have nothing.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Opportunity
Believe
Taken
Thinking
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Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Aggressive
Lifestyle
Nurturing
Women Are
Wait
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We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Sister
Bed
Chairman
Charlie
Cows
Holy
Tricky
Animals
Cats
Dogs
Farm
George
Hannah
Horses
Madonna
Mini
Tom
Wolf
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I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
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Patriotism
Force
Meditation
Patient
Meditate
Shut
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I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
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Patience
Keys
Meditation
Mind
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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.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Birthday
Happy Birthday
Kids
Attention
Certain
Crazy
Forget
Immature
Minutes
Pay
Pay Attention
Thinking
Weird
Why
Anymore
Back
Birthdays
Doing
Certain Things
Number
Goes
Plank
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People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Animal
Clothes
Poisonous
Love Food People
Love Food Your
Feed
Putting
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I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Arms
Portraits
Wonder
People Know Why
Collect
Folded
Wearing
People Old Know
Insurance
Just Kind
Pictures
Painted
Sold
Suit
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I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Kids
Exposed
Growing Up
Innocence
Sex
Thinking
Everywhere
Sexual
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The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.
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Graduation
Integrity
Mean
Passion
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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Kindness
Love
Environmental
Compassion
Destroying
Energy
Environment
Hurt
Joy
Laughter
Powerful
Animals
Contribute
Definitely
Fight
Hurting
Trees
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The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Bob
Starting
Unique
Woody
Myself Always People
Allen
Anybody Else
Copy
Myself People Always
Influenced
Martin
Recommend
Steve
Steve Martin
The Only Thing
Woody Allen
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I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2."
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Success
Yoga
Eye
Silence
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Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Dialogue
Little Things
Retreat
Spiritual
Subconscious
Subconscious Mind
Your Mind Me
All My Friends
Mind Me Long
Bets
Changing
Mind Long Your
Phone
Inner
Paying
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No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
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Arena
Awards
Delicate
Host
Smart
Fill
Nominated
Popular
Same Time
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Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help someone with directions unless you have a terrible sense of direction. Help someone who is trying to help you. Just help. Make an impact. Show someone you care. Say yes instead of no. Say something nice. Smile. Make eye contact. Hug. Kiss. Get naked.
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Smile
Eye
Kissing
Nice
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The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right behind the Improv. I was renting it, and I asked the owners if I could buy it, and they were really nice and let me work out a deal. And I fixed it up and later sold it. That was when I realized that if you make some improvements, you can make money.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Clinton
Fixed
If I Could
Owners
Work Out
Work Money Me
Improv
Renting
Sold
Spanish
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