Rosie O'Donnell Quotes

I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.

Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America...

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate.

I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me.

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

I love to be able to support other women comics.

I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.

I think life is easier if you're straight.

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.

You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.

My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.

I don't want only a career.

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."

I am one of the haunted.

Without art there is no hope.

Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.

I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.

The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.

"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.

You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."

I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.