Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. Degeneres starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003...
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth26 January 1958
CityMetairie, LA
class careers attention
The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.
careers supportive fans
I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.
animal rights care
I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.
thinking careers soul
I think what saved me is me being honest. I think I somewhow had the courage to do something and say something that I knew would possibly end my career. Instead of making business more important I made my soul and my life more important. And I think by being truthful, and being honest, that saved me.
rights care partnership
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.
doors smell odor
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.
yoga sweat challenges
For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses.
approval
I think I let go of the need for approval,
help
just help the way you can. It doesn't have to be money. It can be any way that you can.
american-comedian run somebody street
Just go up to somebody on the street and say "You're it!" and just run away.
emmys guess honored national point second time
I guess I don't have to point this out, that it's the second time I've hosted the Emmys after a national tragedy. And I just want to say that I'm honored because it's times like this that we really need laughter,
ellen hang stuff
We'll go see some theater, and we'll hang out and do some stuff there. We'll go to clubs, ... Ellen DeGeneres Show.
freedom people sort
I think it's sort of representative of a freedom that I have, and I know I have, and I think a lot of people don't have that,
color favorite picking rainbow
its like picking your least favorite color of the rainbow