Top 250 Ellen DeGeneres Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

52. “Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

53. “The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

54. “Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

55. “What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?”

— Ellen DeGeneres

56. “I would love for the world to be happier.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

57. “I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

58. “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.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

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

— Ellen DeGeneres

60. “People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

61. “Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

62. “I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness – and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I’m a human trying to make it through in this world.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

63. “I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

64. “I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

65. “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.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

66. “All we have is here and now. That’s why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn’t the problem, it’s the solution.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

67. “One rough patch is not the big picture.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

68. “The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren’t any space aliens. We can’t be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we’re not all there is. If so, we’re in big trouble.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

69. “We’re just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

70. “It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it’s okay again. That’s what meditation is to me.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

71. “Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn’t threaten you or who you are.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

72. “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.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

73. “Start thinking positively. You will notice a difference. Instead of ‘I think I’m a loser,’ try ‘I definitely am a loser.’ Stop being wishy-washy about things! How much more of a loser can you be if you don’t even know you are one? Either you are a loser or you are not. Which is it, stupid?”

— Ellen DeGeneres

74. “All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. “Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?” “Yes, I have all those things! I’m alive!””

— Ellen DeGeneres

75. “Beauty isn’t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

76. “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

77. “There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

78. “If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you’re supposed to act and how you’re supposed to look and who you are, it’s just not a healthy way to live.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

79. “My name is Ellen and I’m a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I’ve said it...”

— Ellen DeGeneres

80. “If we lose our phones, we lose our phone books. You don’t memorize numbers anymore.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

81. “Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

82. “I don’t really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

83. “I just like observing people – it’s something I’ve done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That’s a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

84. “I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

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

— Ellen DeGeneres

86. “I don’t know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I’d like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

87. “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.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

88. “What did the letter O say to Q? Dude, your dikk is hanging out.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

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

— Ellen DeGeneres

90. “I admire people who know they can’t sing. There are so many people out there who can’t sing, but they think they can, so they sing a lot.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

91. “I’m a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

92. “Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn’t enough. You also have to move the chair.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

93. “Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?”

— Ellen DeGeneres

94. “I don’t want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He’s being chased by a lion. That’s stress. You’re not going to find a pygmy on Paxil, I’ll tell you that right now.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

95. “I know that experts say you’re more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn’t make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

96. “It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

97. “When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

98. “I don’t need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I’m going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

99. “I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn’t ringing. There wasn’t one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn’t work in Hollywood again.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

100. “I’ve moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don’t move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I’m not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.”

— Ellen DeGeneres