Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh.

I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.

Awards bolster your confidence in wonderful ways. But they aren't the world.

Winning a tournament at the end of the year boosts your confidence a lot.

My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

The Emmy nomination did a world of good for my confidence.

I feel great when people say good things about me. But what's important is that I have to show it on the pitch.

I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

I guess other people's compliments motivate you.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They'll say, 'He did it well.' I like being funny; it opens people up.

Respect your success.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.