Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.

I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality.

I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.

Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

I feel like I've always had gay fans, I don't think my dating a woman has changed my demographic, but it certainly changed the way I feel about politics.

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.

If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.

I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.