Rosie O'Donnell Quotes
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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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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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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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The Second Amendment is not really a right.
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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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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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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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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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Without art there is no hope.
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I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.
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When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.
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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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I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.
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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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President Bush almost killed me.
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I think life is easier if you're straight.
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I don't want only a career.
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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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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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I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.
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Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.
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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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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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I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
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Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."
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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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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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"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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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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I am one of the haunted.
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