I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.


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You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She...
ELLEN DEGENERES
We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw so...
ELLEN VAUGHN
Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abun...
ELLEN VAUGHN
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
ELLEN GLASGOW
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
ELLEN GLASGOW
What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at r...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
ELLEN GLASGOW
People tend to remember my performances, not me.
ELLEN BARKIN
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ELLEN GOODMAN
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent...
ELLEN GLASGOW
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffec...
ELLEN KEY
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
ELLEN BARKIN
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So...
ELLEN DEGENERES
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
ELLEN DEGENERES
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
ELLEN SIMON
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
ELLEN GOODMAN
I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is c...
ELLEN DEGENERES
We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.
ELLEN WOOD
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
ELLEN GLASGOW
Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
ELLEN HERMAN
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
ELLEN GOODMAN
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that yo...
ELLEN GOODMAN
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
ELLEN ULLMAN
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, a...
ELLEN KEY
It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horri...
ELLEN GREENE
The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhar...
ELLEN DEGENERES
The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anyb...
ELLEN DEGENERES
The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents.
ELLEN OCHOA
It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New...
ELLEN BARKIN
It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hel...
ELLEN BURSTYN
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
ELLEN DEGENERES
The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for th...
ELLEN KEY
People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with any...
ELLEN DEGENERES
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing ...
ELLEN KEY
Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beauti...
ELLEN DEGENERES
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY
I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
ELLEN KEY
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future...
ELLEN KEY
The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the i...
ELLEN KEY