It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'


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I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity an...
ELLEN DEGENERES
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the cree...
ELLEN KEY
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries...
ELLEN KEY
Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts ...
ELLEN STOFAN
We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
ELLEN STOFAN
Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE
Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspi...
ELLEN HOPKINS
What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same ti...
ELLEN WONG
I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
ELLEN PAGE
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
ELLEN GLASGOW
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
ELLEN DEGENERES
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too...
ELLEN HOPKINS
I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatr...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
ELLEN DEGENERES
Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of yo...
ELLEN DEGENERES
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
ELLEN BURSTYN
So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate t...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I ha...
ELLEN BURSTYN
She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the fi...
ELLEN BURSTYN
It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
ELLEN BURSTYN
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are peo...
ELLEN BURSTYN
It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago an...
ELLEN BURSTYN
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you w...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
ELLEN BURSTYN
I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
ELLEN BURSTYN
I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after...
ELLEN BURSTYN
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that&#...
ELLEN BURSTYN
Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
ELLEN BURSTYN
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
ELLEN BURSTYN
We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours a...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every ...
ELLEN BARKIN
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one...
ELLEN DEGENERES
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ...
ELLEN GUSTAFSON
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the w...
ELLEN DEGENERES
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.
ELLEN HOLLMAN
For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it&...
ELLEN FORNEY
Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
ELLEN DEGENERES
We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of ...
ELLEN STOFAN