641 Quotes by Ellen DeGeneres

Hosting the Emmys is a challenge for me. I guess it’s the equivalent of someone who needs to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane. It’s that kind of thing, where this could go terribly wrong. And I love the feeling of when it goes right.

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.

If you have to say you’re kidding, it might not be a great joke.

Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I’m openly gay.

There’s nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.

I don’t understand the sizes anymore. There’s a size zero, which I didn’t even know that they had. It must stand for: ‘Ohhh my God, you’re thin.’

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. By all means, you should follow that.

I think people need to laugh everyday. Whether the economy is good or bad, I think the most important thing is to laugh and to feel positive, if you are laughing at something positive. But if you are laughing at mean jokes then it’s a wash.

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