TV Quote of the Day (Ellen DeGeneres, on What People Think of Her)

“I used to say I don't care what people think of me. I realize now, looking back, I said that at the height of my popularity.” —Comic and former talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, “Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval,” Netflix original streaming date Sept. 24, 2025, directed by Joel Gallen

Joke of the Day (Ellen DeGeneres, on Spring Cleaning and Its Alternative)

“If you want to clean out your house and get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring cleaning every year. Or you can do what I do. Move.”—Comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding (2011)

Bonus Quote of the Day (Ellen DeGeneres, After Her Thanksgiving Dinner)

“I'm so stuffed I feel like a bunch of people in matching outfits should be parading me down Fifth Avenue.”— Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, November 27, 2014 tweet

Quote of the Day (Jerry Saltz, on the Selfie as Folk Art)

“When it is not just PR, though, it is a powerful, instantaneous ironic interaction that has intensity, intimacy, and strangeness. In some way, selfies reach back to the Greek theatrical idea of methexis—a group sharing wherein the speaker addresses the audience directly, much like when comic actors look at the TV camera and make a face. Finally, fascinatingly, the genre wasn’t created by artists. Selfies come from all of us; they are a folk art that is already expanding the language and lexicon of photography. Selfies are a photography of modern life—not that academics or curators are paying much attention to them. They will, though: In a hundred years, the mass of selfies will be an incredible record of the fine details of everyday life. Imagine what we could see if we had millions of these from the streets of imperial Rome.”— Jerry Saltz, “Art at Arm’s Length: A History of the Selfie,” New York Magazine, February 3, 2014

The image accompanying this post, of course, was the selfie taken Sunday night at the Oscars, by host Ellen DeGeneres--or, as I like to think of it, "The Selfie Seen 'Round the World."

TV Quote of the Day (Ellen DeGeneres, on ‘Buns of Steel’)

"You know, I don't think I really need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."—Ellen DeGeneres, as the title character in the ABC sitcom Ellen, quoted in Leigh Behrens, “Shortcuts,” Chicago Tribune, January 22, 1995