Quotes & Jokes by Ellen DeGeneres / page 6
You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.
I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.'
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.'
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Haiku sounds like I'm saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
You say you're sick and tired of hearing about me? I've got news for you: I'm sick and tired of hearing about me.
We're putting a face on something that a lot of people don't understand, ... And we want to give people some information before they make up their minds and judge us.
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.
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. They will eventually grow tired of naying.
Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.
My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you're kidding?.. No... as funny as that is, I'm not.