Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

Ellen DeGeneres

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• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Political
  • Politics
  • See

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
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• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
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• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Good
  • Church
  • Myself

• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
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• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
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• I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • May
  • Today
  • Hate

• I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Attitude

• If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Love
  • Always
  • Stage

• You don't see many Jon Jones's.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • See
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• After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
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  • Star
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• I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

  

  Zach Braff
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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

  

  Harold Prince
  • May
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• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  

  Annie Baker
  • People
  • Silence

• I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Up
  • Travel

• The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • World

• In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I can bring a crowd down. There should be a contest for that.

  

  Craig Robinson

• But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Life
  • Important
  • Winning