If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don’t curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hat. That’ll show them.
Ellen DeGeneres
Related We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from one another. If someone ever says ... ELLEN DEGENERES Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all di... ELLEN DEGENERES If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you. ELLEN DEGENERES Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for al... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Ellen DeGeneres Show. ADRIEN BRODY Don’t try to explain your seemingly weird behavior to someone else, if your explanation is going t... DR HITESH C SHETH Now. Now, Annwyl. No need to curtsy. A simple nod of your head and absolute worship will be more tha... G.A. AIKEN If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coff... DAVID MITCHELL You're weird,' he says. Despite everythin, I smile. 'You're always saying that, but in fact, yo... AMANDA MACIEL Here’s a professional tip: If you have to say you’re kidding, it might not be a great joke. ELLEN DEGENERES If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t ... JEFF HUTCHINS When God says no, be grateful, and say thank you. SUSIE L HILL We'll go see some theater, and we'll hang out and do some stuff there. We'll go to clubs, ... Ellen ... ELLEN DEGENERES Being different shouldn't be consider weird. Thinking that someone is weird because they are differe... ROSA M. BETANCES Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it... ELLEN DEGENERES The Ellen DeGeneres show called, and they are interested in Ian. We didn't expect anything like that... IAN GILCHRIST I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical. PAUL RUDD Be certain that you’re not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant ... DEMI LOVATO Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. ALAIN DE BOTTON Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was r... VICTORIA MORAN It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres. KYAN DOUGLAS ... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teach... JOHN BARNES Fred and George exchanged looks. "You don't mind if we don't kiss you, do you, Ron?" said Fred ... J.K. ROWLING So let that be a lesson, kids who get an F in math. Ellen says you’re doing the right thing. You�... ELLEN DEGENERES Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to... NEIL GAIMAN The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul. BILLY EICHNER When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking ... TIM BURTON Who knows, it could have been Hillary Clinton herself, doing a Freudian slip during a commercial bre... BRIAN DONAHUE Who knows, it could have been Hillary Clinton herself, doing a Freudian slip during a commercial bre... BRIAN DONAHUE If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough. ELIE WIESEL If you think someone is weird, remember that they are probably thinking the same of you. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO If someone says "Who are you gonna call?" and your instinct is to say "Ghostbusters" then I probably... ANONYMOUS As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird. ROBYN HITCHCOCK If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually de... R.C. SPROUL I did not want to meet my queen in a wheelchair. I was on two canes, and I managed to follow the pro... ANNA LEE There’s Ambien-in-alcohol weird and then there’s Ambien-mistaken-for-cocaine weird. T. A. THOMPSON There’s Ambien-in-alcohol weird and then there’s Ambien-mistaken-for-cocaine weird. TANYA THOMPSON If you’re scared, tell me. If you need to cry and scream, then do it. And you sure as hell don’t... KATIE MCGARRY Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand y... NATSUO KIRINO If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough. MEISTER ECKHART If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be le... CORY DOCTOROW Life is too short to be around someone that says they love you but doesn't show it. ELIZABETH BOURGERET It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on ... CANDICE ACCOLA You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. ... RICK WARREN If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. MEISTER ECKHART It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what h... VANCE JOY I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really w... LARA STONE Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them. BRITNEY SPEARS Tip your hat to him and turn the page. CRAIG MONROE It's fourth down and you bow your necks, say a quick prayer and then you go. HAL CAPPS It was awesome. It was weird: You see him [Bush] on TV, and then he's shaking your hand. COURTNEY THOMPSON If you’re in a position to lift someone off the ground; i. Say nothing about what it c... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE There is nothing wrong with being weird. Anyone who tells you different is only trying to be normal,... JASON MEDINA It was really weird, like asking someone for dinner and presenting them with an empty plate, JAMES JOHNSTON Don’t just love a person for the image, idea or concept of them, but love them for every fantastic... LAUREN KLARFELD I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing a... PAUL MCCARTNEY I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing an... PAUL MCCARTNEY I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God. VIN DIESEL Kids actually experience more conflicts with close friends than with acquaintances. At first that mi... LAWRENCE COHEN You’re a strange person.” “I prefer the term fabulously weird. RICK RIORDAN Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helpin... CHRIS MURRAY You’re impossible.” I sighed. “And really weird. No wonder Jared likes you.” “Is that... REA LIDDE It feels kind of weird because they're your peers and you see them outside of school. And sometimes ... LAUREN JOHNSON You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!' 'You've known s... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see y... NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU It's complicated, when it's raining like this, there's a lot of traffic and you got your speeders, w... CARLOS RUIZ If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a no... NEIL GAIMAN I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing an... PAUL MCCARTNEY One thing you can say is that as for the voodoo stuff, no one had ever done anything like that befor... MICHAEL HURTT I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession. ACTION BRONSON Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say? NICKI MINAJ Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is c... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So, if anyone ever tells you no, of anyone says your voice isn't important or your dreams are too bi... CHELSEA CLINTON If you're gonna get weird, get weird. RICHIE SAMBORA I wondered if they had rehearsed this weird three-way-talking thing they had going on. I imagined th... RACHEL HAWKINS What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for ... TREY PARKER Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost... EVAN RACHEL WOOD Where's your will to be weird? JIM MORRISON Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re w... TERRY PRATCHETT We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is com... DR. SEUSS We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is com... ROY CROFT We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is com... DR. SEUSS We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is com... JONATHAN MAIER love can be very difficult, you find true love,but then it is then chucked back in your face by some... MIKE GRIST He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I p... JJ ABRAMS My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird. STEPHANIE PERKINS It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then? MITCH HEDBERG Must be weird for you, having your mom here." "Weird for me, weird for her, probably weird for ... RACHEL HAWKINS If you were blessed to have parents who taught you to be responsible for your choices, then you shou... DANNY SILK If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—yo... MITCH ALBOM Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. ELLEN DEGENERES Thomas was baffled by this girl—first the connection he’d felt to her from the very beginning, t... JAMES DASHNER Oh, you may not think I’m pretty, But don’t judge on what you see, I’ll eat myself if you can ... J.K. ROWLING If you really want to hear what someone says then listen with your eyes. JEFFREY BENJAMIN We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is co... ROBERT FULGHUM We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is ... ROBERT FULGHUM His breath hitched, and he regarded me hungrily. “You’re playing with fire, you know that?” JULIE KAGAWA Yes! Boys are all weird. Every one of them is weird. Yuck! MAE WHITMAN I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d... EDDIE VAN HALEN
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You make an ass out of you and me be... ELLEN DEGENERES The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and... ELLEN DEGENERES I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had... ELLEN DEGENERES Don't hold onto things, it will only bring you pain. ELLEN DEGENERES That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it. ELLEN DEGENERES The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head. ELLEN DEGENERES I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and list... ELLEN DEGENERES [• Ellen DeGeneres , who was praised for her graceful performance as host of the Emmy Awards that ... ELLEN DEGENERES We'll go see some theater, and we'll hang out and do some stuff there. We'll go to clubs, ... Ellen ... ELLEN DEGENERES I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ''... ELLEN DEGENERES I feel sorry for the newscasters you know? We can turn it off. But that's their job and they have to... ELLEN DEGENERES "I'm feeling so good. I feel like a million bucks. I'm focused, I'm alert, I'm zippy and top of my g... ELLEN DEGENERES Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not... ELLEN DEGENERES You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress. ELLEN DEGENERES "I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises." ELLEN DEGENERES I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, ... ELLEN DEGENERES Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that... ELLEN DEGENERES Hello?..Oh, hi Tom. Ooh, I've been dying to see that movie...Mmm no, I just opened up some yogurt. I... ELLEN DEGENERES It's definitely a heterosexual feeling, but it's directed at you. ELLEN DEGENERES Yeah [I'm thirty-six], but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old w... ELLEN DEGENERES I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from...... ELLEN DEGENERES Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up ... ELLEN DEGENERES The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right be... ELLEN DEGENERES I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave ... ELLEN DEGENERES It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school. ELLEN DEGENERES I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got re... ELLEN DEGENERES Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year... ELLEN DEGENERES Anne wrote it for me and directed, so I was stuck with it, ... We always got along. It's almost gros... ELLEN DEGENERES New Orleans is my hometown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected. ELLEN DEGENERES I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my... ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w... ELLEN DEGENERES I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new ... ELLEN DEGENERES I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day. ELLEN DEGENERES I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getti... ELLEN DEGENERES The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime... ELLEN DEGENERES Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses,... ELLEN DEGENERES Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. It is the universe's way of saying stop, slo... ELLEN DEGENERES Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen ... ELLEN DEGENERES Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these d... ELLEN DEGENERES You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She... ELLEN DEGENERES I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c... ELLEN DEGENERES I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the lov... ELLEN DEGENERES I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial su... ELLEN DEGENERES