Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.

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.

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.

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.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

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.

If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

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.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

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.

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.

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.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

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?

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.

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

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

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.

Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away.

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.

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

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.

You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.

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.

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.

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.