Quotes from Ellen DeGeneres

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

I am a really sensitive person.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial success, it'll lead you to the money that'll make you the happiest.

If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.

I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.

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.

I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

I wanted to have money I wanted to be special I wanted people to like me I wanted to be famous.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.

Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.' Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log.