Biografie

Is only the second woman to host the Oscars on her own. The first was Whoopi Goldberg.

Used to sell vacuum cleaners before she was discovered.

When Ellen came out as a lesbian on her show in April 1997, ABC's affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama, refused to air the landmark episode. Some of the show's sponsors, including Chrysler, withdrew their advertisements.

Quit smoking cigarettes using the Allen Carr method (also known as Easy Way). She had been a longtime smoker and was having trouble quitting.

Ellen lived in the apartment used in Annabelle (2014). While promoting the movie in her show, she explained: "The apartment in the movie was my first apartment that I moved to in L.A. That was the building I lived in; where they shot the movie. I was watching it going: 'That looks familiar' and it was my building. It was scary back then too.".

I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.

People always ask me 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, I was an accountant.

"I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are. That's where us gay people come from - you heterosexuals." - during her interview on 20/20 (1978).

On her love scene with Bill Pullman in Mr. Wrong - Der Traummann wird zum Alptraum (1996): "It's a combination of Gefährliche Freundin (1986), Die Zeit nach Mitternacht (1985) and Mary Poppins (1964)....if Mary Poppins were naked."

The '60s were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun (1967).