More Quotes by Ellen DeGeneres
I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.
I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals.
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
