Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.
ELLEN TERRY There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has lear...
ELLEN TERRY Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.
ELLEN TERRY Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit ca...
ELLEN TERRY If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, ...
ELLEN TERRY As Romeo Irving reminded me of a pig who has been taught to play the fiddle. He did it cleverly, but...
ELLEN TERRY Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
ELLEN TERRY Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necess...
ELLEN TERRY No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
ELLEN TERRY If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, ...
ELLEN TERRY Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
ELLEN TERRY Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought nece...
ELLEN TERRY I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it bri...
ELLEN OCHOA My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need ...
ELLEN KLAGES There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life ...
ELLEN GOODMAN I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we...
ELLEN DEGENERES You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life fami...
ELLEN BARKIN I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and ...
ELLEN GILCHRIST My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. T...
ELLEN TAUSCHER I go to a lot of plays. I tend to prefer the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway more than the Broadwa...
ELLEN CHENOWETH I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure bl...
ELLEN PAGE With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounde...
ELLEN ULLMAN What are your drawn to?"
...
"Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll writ...
ELLEN SUSSMAN I would love for the world to be happier.
ELLEN DEGENERES I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me...
ELLEN DEGENERES So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying i...
ELLEN DEGENERES If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wan...
ELLEN DEGENERES The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think peop...
ELLEN DEGENERES Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
ELLEN DEGENERES Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We ...
ELLEN BARKIN I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked bad...
ELLEN POTTER Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and bu...
ELLEN ULLMAN Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must a...
ELLEN KEY Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
ELLEN GILCHRIST Innocence eroded into nightmare.
All because of very bad touch.
Love, corrupted.
ELLEN HOPKINS I'm not limited by my gender, and I don't think anyone else should be either. Because I am t...
ELLEN BARKIN EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust ...
ELLEN MALCOLM And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happe...
ELLEN DEGENERES If you’ve managed to do one good thing,
the ocean doesn’t care.
But when Newton’s ap...
ELLEN BASS Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment.
ELLEN HOPKINS Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
ELLEN DEGENERES The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens....
ELLEN DEGENERES We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with eac...
ELLEN GOODMAN to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held d...
ELLEN BASS I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I...
ELLEN DEGENERES Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.
ELLEN DEGENERES I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual....
ELLEN DEGENERES Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear a...
ELLEN DEGENERES Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should reali...
ELLEN DEGENERES It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.
ELLEN DEGENERES If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.
ELLEN DEGENERES If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birt...
ELLEN DEGENERES You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and sl...
ELLEN DEGENERES Haiku sounds like I'm
Saying hi to someone named
Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello.
ELLEN DEGENERES Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:
Yes.
Yes.
No.
One time in high school. ELLEN DEGENERES Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help som...
ELLEN DEGENERES Now,I'm no scientist,but I know what endorphins are. They're tiny little magical elves that swim thr...
ELLEN DEGENERES The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yours...
ELLEN DEGENERES So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless y...
ELLEN DEGENERES Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all di...
ELLEN DEGENERES Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't ev...
ELLEN DEGENERES Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also ha...
ELLEN DEGENERES Way, way back in the day, like in the 1990s, if you wanted to tell everyone you ate waffles for brea...
ELLEN DEGENERES I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clappin...
ELLEN DEGENERES I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and...
ELLEN DEGENERES It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.
ELLEN DEGENERES It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
ELLEN DEGENERES Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neigh...
ELLEN DEGENERES What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we ...
ELLEN DEGENERES True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is ab...
ELLEN DEGENERES Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
ELLEN DEGENERES When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when...
ELLEN DEGENERES My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the c...
ELLEN DEGENERES Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if peo...
ELLEN DEGENERES This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize lov...
ELLEN HOPKINS If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u...
ELLEN DEGENERES I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ...
ELLEN DEGENERES Girls get screwed.
Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
ELLEN HOPKINS When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice ...
ELLEN GLASGOW Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
ELLEN PARR No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means...
ELLEN KEY All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offeri...
ELLEN KEY All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
ELLEN GLASGOW I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to ...
ELLEN GOODMAN No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day...
ELLEN GLASGOW No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it ...
ELLEN GLASGOW 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 There
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 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 Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the confli...
ELLEN KEY It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their ...
ELLEN KEY Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
ELLEN KEY The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rej...
ELLEN KEY In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child br...
ELLEN KEY Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
ELLEN KEY It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just ...
ELLEN KEY Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish ...
ELLEN KEY The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in a...
ELLEN KEY Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is i...
ELLEN KEY On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between...
ELLEN KEY When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
ELLEN KEY Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others...
ELLEN KEY The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
ELLEN KEY Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
ELLEN KEY 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 So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an impor...
ELLEN BASS When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m...
ELLEN GOODMAN I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
ELLEN DEGENERES