"I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights."
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Ellen DeGeneres quotes (page 13 of 19)
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"You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools."
"I get paid very well for an amazing, amazing life. I'm blessed."
"I'm a fan of people getting together."
"My cat, Ethel, is an indoor cat but somehow she's sneakin' out at night. 'Cause the other morning I found a stamp on her paw... I wouldn't have noticed myself, but I just bought this new black light and she passed right under it and I said, 'Hey, what's that on you paw?"
"I put a basketball in front of George Clooney's door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out."
"First of all, I don't think they have to go that high. That is not necessary, to be that high in the air. I think they're showing off, those pilots. I think we could just go really fast just a few feet off the ground. Just high enough to miss the animals."
"You say you're sick and tired of hearing about me? I've got news for you: I'M sick and tired of hearing about me."
"I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information."
"All of my friends were seeing a therapist, and I thought something was wrong with me that I didn't see a therapist. So I went to a therapist to find out why I wasn't seeing a therapist. And it turns out I'm very screwed up. Thank God I found a therapist to tell me for $125 an hour."
"I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with."
"I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go."
"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."
"People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?"
"I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television."
"Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello."
"Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair."
"Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about."
"I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it’s dark and you can’t see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?"
"I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith."