641 Quotes by Ellen DeGeneres

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

Go to bed in your fireplace, you'll sleep like a log.

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.

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

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

This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.