But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Just go up to somebody on the street and say "You're it!" and then run away.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The sixties were when hallucinogentic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun.
Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen is anemic.
Ellen quit smoking as of late 2005.
May 06. In Time magazine the issue of the 100 people who shaped our world. Ellen was named the bravest comedian in show business.
Some awards that she has won... Daytime Emmy Awards 2006 Outstanding Talk Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2006 Outstanding Talk Show Host, The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2006 Outstanding Special Class Writing, The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2005 Outstanding Talk Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2005 Outstanding Talk Show Host, The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2005 Outstanding Special Class Writing, The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2004 Outstanding Talk Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emmy Awards 1997 Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series, Ellen People's Choice Awards 2006 Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host 2006 Favorite Funny Female Star 2005 Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host 2005 Favorite Funny Female Star Kids Choice Awards 2004 Favorite Voice from an animated movie, Finding Nemo
Ellen loves to play poker.
Ellen has hosted... The 33rd (1991) and 34th (1992) annual Grammy's. The 53rd (2001) and 57th (2005) annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The 79th (2007) annual Academy Awards.
(Sept 1st, 06) Ellen driving her '06 Porshce Carrera and stopped at a traffic light on Sunset Blvd at just around 4pm. A Buick Le Sabre was stopped behind her at a traffic light. An older Carrera slammed into the Buick behind DeGeneres. Ellen and Portia both complained of minor neck and back pains but seemed otherwise uninjured. Ellen's car sustained moderate damage.
Ellen collects antique mirrors.
One of her favorite games to play is Charades.
Ellen received wide exposure on November 4, 2001, when she served as hostess of the Emmy Awards-TV show. Presented following two cancellations due to fears that a showy ceremony would appear insensitive following the September 11, 2001 attacks, the show required a newer, more somber tone that at the same time allowed viewers to temporarily forget the tragedy. DeGeneres delivered this, receiving several standing ovations for her performance that evening. She memorably delivered the following line: "We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?"
When Ellen came out as a lesbian on her show in April 1997, ABC's affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama refused to air the landmark episode. Some of the show's sponsors withdrew their advertisements, one of which was Chrysler.
Her first leading role in a film was with Bill Pullman in Mr. Wrong. (1996)
GLAAD awarded Ellen the Stephen F. Kolzak Award for being an openly gay celebrity who has battled homophobia in 1998.
Ellen's feature acting debut was in the 1993 movie Coneheads.
Ellen's sometimes difficult life inspired her to use humor as a coping device.
Ellen played the first gay lead character on TV ever. Appearing on her show, Ellen as gay secured her that place in TV history.
Ellen used to get booked at the same comedy gigs as David Spade.
For a few days after Hurricane Katrina she didn't know if her aunt and cousin were alive.
She won a Peabody Award and an Emmy award for her writing "The Puppy Episode" on Ellen. That was the episode in which she came out as gay in.
Ellen hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards after two national tragedies, Hurricane Katrina (05) and 9/11 (01).
After Here and Now Ellen says she's done doing stand-up comedy.
Betty, (her mom) was initially shocked when Ellen came out to her. But now is in fact one of her biggest supporters. Betty is an active member of PFLAG and spokesperson for the HRC Coming Out Project.
Ellen's father, Elliot is/was an insurance salesman. Her mother, Betty is/was a real-estate agent.
She came out to her mom, Betty when she was 19-20.
Ellen is an active PETA member.
She met her current girlfriend Portia de Rossi, six years ago. They met up again at the VH1 Big in 04 awards and sparks flew between them.
Ellen won an award from Nickelodeon in 2004 for Favorite voice from an animated movie for her role as 'Dory' in Finding Nemo.
Ellen sent a representative from her talk show to Fuel Depot Garage in Houston, Texas after 'Hurricane Rita' to give away free fuel. All locals that showed up between 5pm and 7pm enjoyed a free full tank, on Ellen's tab.
Ellen set up a 'Hurricane Katrina' relief fund, that raised seven million dollars.
Ellen began supporting and donating to Cancer studies and research funds, when her mother Betty was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Ellen's first comedy job was in 1981, she emceed at Clyde's Comedy Club, where she started to record her stand-up performances.
Ellen left the University of New Orleans after one semester, to do clerical work at a law firm.
Ellen has always been especially close to her brother Vance, and considers him the best friend in her life.
Ellen ended her four-year relationship with photographer-director Alexandra Hedison. [December 2004]
Ellen was named "Entertainer of the Year" by Entertainment Weekly 26 December 1997/2 January 1998, issues 411/412.
DeGeneres is friends with singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, Kathy Najimy of the movie Sister Act, and actress Jamie Lee Curtis.
When some of Ellen's freinds put together a show/party kind-of-thing, she was asked to do a comedy routine. She did an act and was soon asked to perform at coffeehouses and eventually became the emcee at Clyde's Comedy Club (the only comedy place in New Orleans at the time).
She is of French, Irish, English and German descent.
She has written two books, "My Point... And I Do Have One""The Funny Thing Is...", both New York Times bestsellers.
She was named "Entertainer of the Year" by Entertainment Weekly in December 1997.
Her trade mark is blue sneakers.
She has been dating Portia De Rossi Since 2004
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