Top 90 Rosie O'Donnell Quotes
#2. I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!
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#3. Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.
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#4. You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!
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#5. I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.
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#6. I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.
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#7. The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.
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#8. I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
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#9. I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.
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#10. It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.
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#11. I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.
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#12. Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."
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#13. Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity?
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#14. I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.
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#15. I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.
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#17. Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!
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#18. To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.
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#19. I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.
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#20. I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.
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#21. I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
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#22. I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.
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#24. I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.
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#25. Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.
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#26. I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
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#27. Are you fat because you're a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you're fat?
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#28. I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.
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#29. I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.
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#30. I know, people were like, "It's all right that she's gay, but she doesn't have to look so gay." Trust me - I'm never cutting my hair again!
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#31. You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"
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#32. Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.
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#33. We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.
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#34. I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.
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#35. I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.
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#36. I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
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#38. Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.
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#40. If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.
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#41. There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.
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#42. Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America
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#43. I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.
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#45. At times of great emotion, good or bad, I find I am gone, somewhere else, watching it happen to me, a different me. I miss a lot of my own life, my own moments, because I step outside myself. I feel it all more in retrospect than in actual time.
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#46. We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.
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#47. I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.
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#48. I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.
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#49. I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.
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#50. I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
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#51. When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too."
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#53. Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.
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#54. I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me.
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#55. I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?
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#56. When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, "This is who you are. You're okay in this lady, and you're a great, healthy, lovable and loving person." I try to accept myself.
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#57. I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.
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#58. I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.
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#59. I am difficult to love, and I know it. I never learned the unconditional part, so trust evades me. Add sex and I fall apart, eventually retreating back into the swamp. Very few people can put up with me, and I can't blame them. I am a constant contradiction. I annoy myself.
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#60. What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.
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#61. The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
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#63. I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.
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#64. I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.
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#65. I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.
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#67. And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms
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#68. Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound.
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#69. I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.
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#70. Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
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#71. We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.
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#72. I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.
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#73. There's something about being a part of Broadway and going backstage. You know, like when I go to see a show now and going backstage and saying "Hi" to the cast. It's so thrilling. It's so beyond my wildest dreams from when I was a kid.
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#74. Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.
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#76. The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.
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#78. I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.
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#79. The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!
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#80. I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.
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#81. Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.
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#82. My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.
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#83. "Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.
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#84. Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.
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#86. It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.
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#87. I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate.
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#88. You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.
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#89. The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.
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#90. I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.
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