Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

People are surprised that I'm nice and it helps me out a little bit; it's easy to be nice when everyone thinks you're going to be a jerk but if people think you're a nice guy then it's tough because it's what they expect.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

The problem is that people have an idea of what a footballer should look like, how they should behave, what they should talk about. If you act a little differently you become a target. There is pressure to conform. This is very dangerous.

I'm always shocked by what people react to.

None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.