I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.
Ellen DeGeneresI think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like โshut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.
Ellen DeGeneresThere are โwell-known secretsโ out there and there are people who are โso happy they could die.โ Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, theyโre right. Basically what Iโm saying is, I usually donโt know what people are talking about.
Ellen DeGeneresThe legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.
Ellen DeGeneresIt's a lot of work to put a brand-new monologue and a brand-new show on the air and find comedy every single day. It's challenging and it's the hardest thing I have ever done, but it's the best-suited thing for me. The more relaxed I get and the more confident I feel, the more I get to play and be myself...
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