Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.

We all know people who are ridiculously famous, and it's a scary thing because all of the sudden people - even the people you are close to - stop being honest with you, stop telling you the truth.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

If you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are.

Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't want to take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

You have not quite lived in this ridiculously silly celebrity culture until you've been told one day how loved you are and the next day how hated you are - and sometimes by the same individual.

A lot of things have been said about me. People are going to talk, and that's a good thing; I want people to talk.

Neymar is probably tired of hearing people talk about him.

You can't turn fame off regardless if you're a platinum-selling artist or you're in jail every week. If you're famous, you're famous. You're in the headlines either way you go.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have an unbelievably beautiful, well-known wife. And the people who criticize me don't.

What's been interesting is that the more famous the person is, the less they seem to care if I talk about them.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

Popularity means people think they know you.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

Fame is not your friend. It ain't necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.