Ellen DeGeneres
Related My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had ... ALEXA RAY JOEL When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous ... RICK BAKER VAN MORRISON BETH DITTO LAURA MVULA LIZA MINNELLI ROBERT BENCHLEY I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say RICHARD LEWIS My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made m... IAN HART DAVID ZUCKER BRUCE WILLIS BRUCE WILLIS DAMON WAYANS When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if i... KATHRYN LASKY THORNTON WILDER PAUL LYNDE I love being famous - it's phenomenal. DAVE CHAPPELLE SIA ELLEN DEGENERES ELLEN DEGENERES You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous. TAMAR BRAXTON I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my... PORTIA DE ROSSI I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical. PAUL RUDD I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to ... PHOEBE PHILO CHAD KROEGER CHRIS CRUTCHER KELLEY ARMSTRONG MIKE BIRBIGLIA BOB MARLEY ANTHONY T. HINCKS CHRIS ROCK MARK HELPRIN It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around. ANITA EKBERG He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bou... SAFFRON BURROWS I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me. BEN SCHWARTZ JANET JACKSON I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this gre... DANE COOK I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is... SETH GREEN ROBERT BENCHLEY ROBERT BENCHLEY ROBERT BENCHLEY ADRIEN BRODY MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than th... SALLY KIRKLAND MALLORY JANSEN I was a big Jay Leno fan, so I was sorry to see him go. But my number one person that I watch, she&#... MEGYN KELLY CATHERINE DENEUVE BRUCE DICKINSON Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me,... GAVIN MACLEOD ROBERT BENCHLEY ANONYMOUS MARTIN SCORSESE BILL GATES CHUCK BERRY Before I got famous, I was like a rake. When I was a teenager, I lived on nervous energy. And I alwa... BOY GEORGE VAN MORRISON When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way. RAVI SHANKAR BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with P... ALICE EVE I always have a desire of writing an Autobiography.But,there's one question that bothers me a lot.I'... NISHI DE SILVA That was good then. I'm glad they cheered. I wish we would have completed it. I would have stood up ... HOUSTON NUTT When I first read his work, I almost thought it was some kind of parody by a famous white writer, be... SHERMAN ALEXIE CHRIS ROCK GEORGE LUCAS I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up bei... KATHARINE ISABELLE BOB DOLE TAYLOR JENKINS REID Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events... FRAN DRESCHER AL FRANKEN DAMON WAYANS ELLEN DEGENERES I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six... SAM BRADFORD When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. JAMES CARVILLE DANA CARVEY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey. ERIC HEIDEN HULK HOGAN I always kind of felt there's like this twisted love relationship between King Kong and Fay Wray and... LYDIA RUTH We were hitting the ball hard, and Toledo was making the plays. Even when we were being no-hit, I th... PAUL MAINIERI I had no desire to tell anyone I was in love. I knew and that was all that mattered. I had a theory ... DOMINIC RICCITELLO ART GARFUNKEL CAROLINE KENNEDY I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 go... LILLETE DUBEY You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me. IMELDA STAUNTON I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty a... KRISTIN CHENOWETH JENSEN ACKLES I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK I was fortunate growing up on the farm. My parents were very understanding and backed me up all the ... KRIS WALTER I love when people come up to me and tell me that they watch it. And ask like, 'Do you think Ellen a... KATHERINE HEIGL One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical fig... WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN ANNE HECHE CANDACE BUSHNELL I don't want to be famous for being famous. KELLI O'HARA We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous. ROBERT PATRICK It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres. KYAN DOUGLAS I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one ... DAVID KAY MICHELLE PFEIFFER I was famous from birth PETER FONDA Even though I'm not supposed to be nervous, I was then because I was performing for somebody famous. KORT FULLER For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don... JEFF BRIDGES
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ... 
When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they we... 
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... 
Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that. 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up bec... 
I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into T... 
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got fa... 
I never thought about being famous. 
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married ... 
I was obsessed with being rich and famous. 
If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want t... 
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So... 
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famo... 
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have ... 
If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. ... 
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Phil... 
I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me. 
I never dreamt that I would be famous. Infamous, yes! Famous, no! 
I love being famous. It's almost like being white. 
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured... 
I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told an... 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec... 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec... 
The Ellen DeGeneres Show. 
I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me t... 
My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen. 
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not. 
I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. I... 
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ... 
When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone cou... 
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head ... 
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew... 
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot... 
Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? 
I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about ... 
I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be... 
When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous. 
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when g... 
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous. 
Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution.
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a litt... 
I'm more interested in being good than being famous. 
I'm the man that made wrestling famous. 
So even though I thought we were good-I thought our harmony and our blend was real good-I thought we... 
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always re... 
That's a little Screen Gems horror flick that David Winkler, son of famous director Irwin Winkler, d... 
The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisi... 
But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was alwa... 
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymit... 
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we...