Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning Page #3

Synopsis: The smart, sassy actress/comedienne's third solo HBO special features material taped in front of a live audience at NYC's Beacon Theater. In this show, Ellen makes her triumphant return to the irreverent, irresistible humor that launched her career.
Director(s): Joel Gallen
Production: HBO Video
  Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
TV-14
Year:
2000
66 min
1,174 Views


Sneaker...

And now Stephanie has 900 babies

to raise all alone...

She's got her legs full,

I tell you that, right now...

Chris was so kind, wouldn't hurt a fly.

It's just been though for them lately,

they just lost their web last week.

Those humans think, they are so smart...

Let them try shoot silk out of their bottom,

see what they could make.

It's true. Admit,...

if you look at a spider web,

that is magnificent to me...

Look at a spider web

and see what they can do.

Look at a bird's

nest and see what that is...

At least nature uses

every single thing they've got...

We don't, we're capable of so much more

and we just don't use it...

You know that Nelson Mandela quote:

Our deepest fear is not

that we are inadequate,...

our deepest fear is

that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness

that most frightens us...

"Bla, bla, bla,... " whatever he says..

It's true. They say we use

10% of our brain... 10%...

Imagine, what we could accomplish,

if we used the other 60%...

do you know, what I'm saying?

I like to think I am smart and I am

constantly reminded just...

left and right, that I am just not as...

smart as...

Every single time I drive my Toyota

Land Cruiser

into an underground parking structure,

I duck... every single time...

Don't trust it...

I am loosing my mind

just slowly the older I get,...

I am doing things that are starting

to scare me, like I'll be

walking out of the house,

I've just had a banana,

so I've got the banana peel in one hand

my car keys in the other hand...

I go to the trash,

I throw my car keys away and

I walk out with my banana peel.

Constantly doing things like that...

I forget people's names all the time..

that's a REALLY bad one for me...

People I totally should know, too.

They are coming up to me at a party night

I just start panicking and

I have to do that fake-out thing:

I am sorry, remind me again,

how do you pronounce your name?

['kath-ee], ok...

So the emphasis is

on the first syllable... ['kaeth-ee]

For some reason

I was gonna say [kaeth-'ee]...

Look at you...

I have a hard time staying focused

for long periods of time...

That's... I try,... I really try... I do...

Somebody is talking to me and

I'm there as long as I can possibly hold on.

and then I just driiiift off...

I don't know, where I go,

but I'm not here,

just the mouth

moving in front of me.

Have no clue, what it is, they're saying...

Then I realize I am gone and

I don't know, how long I've been gone.

So I start to come back...

I just catch the word "leotard" and

I am like "what the... " and I'm back...

And I am wondering, if they know

that I was gone and I am back...

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Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( də-JEN-ər-əs; born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, producer, and LGBT activist. DeGeneres starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003. Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s, and included a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. As a film actress, DeGeneres starred in Mr. Wrong (1996), EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016); for Nemo, she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. In 2010, she was a judge on American Idol for its ninth season. She starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, she came out as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her character, Ellen Morgan, also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues, including the coming-out process. This made her the first openly lesbian actress to play an openly lesbian character on television. In 2008, she married her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi. DeGeneres has hosted the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Primetime Emmys. She has authored four books and started her own record company, Eleveneleven, as well as a production company, A Very Good Production. She also launched a lifestyle brand, ED Ellen DeGeneres, which comprises a collection of apparel, accessories, home, baby, and pet items. She has won 30 Emmys, 20 People's Choice Awards (more than any other person), and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. In 2016, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. more…

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