For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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About Ellen DeGeneres

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Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( də-JEN-ər-əs; born January 26, 1958), is an American comedian, actress, television host, writer, and producer.

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I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.

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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.

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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.

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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

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People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

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