Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?

No, we can't be friends. You're my mom. You're what i talk to my friends about.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.

I put a basketball in front of George Clooney's door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out.

I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.

I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

What goes up must come down, which is why I don't wear tube tops.

Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.' Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.

In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.

There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love.

Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself.

We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.

I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not.

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.

I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something.

I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.

I don't consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer.

Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow.

It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me.

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

It would be horrible to live with someone who didn't like the same things you like.

I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.

I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:Yes.Yes.No.One time in high school.Three times in my twenties.Rocks no salt.Yes.Four.Never. And how dare you!I will take no further questions.

...if you want to add a little spice to your life, plant some dill. And learn to salsa.

Don't hold onto things, it will only bring you pain.

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.

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.

I wanted to have money I wanted to be special I wanted people to like me I wanted to be famous.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the love in my life.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.