“I remember it like it was yesterday. Of course, I don't really remember yesterday all that well.”Tagged: yesterday, remember, Well, Memory
“I had just moved out to try to teach her a lesson so that she would beg me to come back. I’d planned on going back. She kept saying, 'When are you coming?' I kept acting like the music was too loud and I couldn’t hear. I was really just playing a game. She left, and then I left after that and we…”Tagged: Tragedy
“I just wanted to be myself. I didn’t want to be anything but myself.”Tagged: Being Yourself, Encouraging
“Ellen: You don’t need to analyze this dream. I have this little tiny bird. This finch. This beautiful little finch. And I love it so much. And I put it in this beautiful bamboo—one of those tiered bamboo birdcages. As I put it in the cage, the bird becomes me. And I’m still me. And the bird is me in…”Tagged: Dreams, Freedom, Birds
“I had no material because I had never done anything. The reason I was funny, I guess, to friends is I would always be observational about situations. One thing I always observed is that people [when they’re eating] would start a sentence and then take a bite. So I started the sentence. I said, 'This…”Tagged: comedy, Meta
“My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The piña and the colada.”Tagged: Balance, Highs and Lows, Piña and the Colada
“I just wish we could hold on to that sense of wonder because sometimes we don’t notice some of the most incredible things in the world. We walk by beautiful flowers and trees every day without looking at them. We rush through our day without even saying hi to most of the people we see. We take a lot…”Tagged: Wonder, Sense of Wonder, Flowers, Appreciation
“If we lived each day as our last, I bet we’d all be a lot more honest with people, because we wouldn’t have to care what people think anymore.”Tagged: Honesty, Existentialism, carefree
“Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside—to have a big heart and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.”Tagged: physical, Beautiful, Big Heart, open mind
“Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help someone with directions unless you have a terrible sense of direction. Help someone who is trying to help you. Just help. Make an impact. Show someone you care. Say yes instead of no. Say something nice.…”Tagged: Contribute, Smile, Eye Contact
“Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay.…”Tagged: Self-Esteem, Naysayers
“I don't miss traveling and sleeping in a hotel every night. I mean that touring got really old. I did it for 15 years and I had no idea I was going to be a talk-show host, but I used to joke with the audience at the end of my set that someday I am going to make you come to me, and I'm not going to…”Tagged: Traveling, motels, The Road, Stand-Up Comedy, Energy
“There is really no difference between Ellen, the stand-up, or Ellen, the talk show host, or even Ellen at home. The humor that I'm still writing that you see every day on the show is the same as when I did stand-up, as when I toured. It's just kind of commentating on absurdities and human behavior.…”Tagged: Topless, humor, Stand-Up Comedy
“I was thrilled, and really proud as a lot of people are about it. It was energizing that Obama got in and I felt excited about that. But the next day, especially because Obama got in, there was a big loud voice saying you were not equal to us. And that feels bad. That feels really, really bad. And…”Tagged: Obama, Hate, Political Comedy
“I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms. As Linda McCartney used to say, if they had glass walls, no one would eat meat. And let me tell you, I loved eating meat. I loved lamb, I loved chicken, I loved my cheeseburgers.…”Tagged: Veganism, Slaughterhouses, Linda McCartney, Lamb, chicken
“I'm not like a depressed person. But I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.”Tagged: Depression, Judgmental