Ellen DeGeneres Quotes Images [Sayings by Ellen DeGeneres]
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Ellen DeGeneres Quotes
"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Though you feel you're not where you're suppose to be, you shouldn't worry because that next turn that you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I've always said, I like my coffee like I like my men... I don't drink coffee." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
"Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, "Ouch, that hurts," and your body will say, "I know." And your mind will think, "You have to get out of this position." And your body will say, "I agree with you, but I can't right now. I think I'm stuck." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing. Chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim through your blood stream and tell funny jokes to each other. When they reach your brain,you hear what they're saying and that boosts your health and happiness. "Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh and then you laugh. See? Its Science." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
"It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
Ellen DeGeneres Sayings
"When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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.'" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"And the bottom line is we are who we are-we look a certain way, we talk a certain way, we walk a certain way. I strut because I’m a supermodel, and sometimes I gallop for fun. When we learn to accept that, other people learn to accept us. So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
"Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
"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." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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 DeGeneres
"This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"[Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
"I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
Quotes by Ellen DeGeneres
"Be kind to one another. Bye, bye." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
"What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I don't know what people are scared of...maybe they think their children will be influenced by gay marriage, but I've got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. Everywhere I looked - heterosexuals. And they did not influence me. It's time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn’t threaten you or who you are." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"And we certainly don't have full conversations on cellphones. You know? Usually the reception is so bad, but it's only bad on your side. The person talking to you has no clue. They're just rambling on and on. You've got your finger jammed in your ear, you're shushing people on the streets. You're ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend's new hair cut. What about the bangs are they shorter?! Are the bangs shorter?! The bangs!" ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are. That's where us gay people come from - you heterosexuals." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
"We stock up on popcorn and candy like we're crossing the Sierras, don't we? I'll have a couple of soft pretzels, a hot dog, Milk Duds, Snocaps. Is that the largest popcorn you've got there, that bucket? You don't have a barrel or anything like that? Do you have a donkey or a pack mule or anything? - Oh, and a Diet Coke." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
"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
"I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off." ~ Ellen DeGeneres
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