Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

• I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That’s really why I do what I do.

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• It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

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  Topics in Success

• 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.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Success

• I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush.

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  Tags in Like, Humour

• The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

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• It’s funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

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  Topics in Funny

• My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada

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  Topics in Life

• Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Life

• Things will get easier. People’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

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  Tags in Easier, Change

• While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I’d say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Thought, Doing

• When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Parents, Made, Thought, Famous, Good

• 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.

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  Tags in Home, Sleep, Little, Wolf

• Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I’m openly gay.

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  Tags in People, Because, Openly, Managers, Would, Watch, Show

• There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don’t even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don’t seem to have time now.

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Run, President, Play, Golf, Understand, Would

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Someone, Successful, Myself, Tried

• The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.

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  Tags in Reason, Influenced, Carol

• The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime’s Funniest Person in America. And that’s a really tough title to travel around with when you’re not even known.

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  Tags in People, Person, Around, Travel, Unfortunately

• 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.

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  Tags in Mind, Spiritual, Friends, Radio

• 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.

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  Topics in Children, Love

  Tags in Ultimately, House, Decided, People

• 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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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in People, Show, Moment, Nominated

Ellen DeGeneres (74)

Birth:	26th January, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Comedian, Television Presenter

About

Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. She is an American comedian, television host, and actress. She starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003. Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s, culminating in a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. She starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in EDtv, and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. She starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. She has hosted the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Primetime Emmys.

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