Rosie O'Donnell
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.Collection: Sorry
Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America...Collection: Country
I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.Collection: Running
The Second Amendment is not really a right.Collection: Second Amendment
Are you fat because you're a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you're fat?Collection: World
Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.Collection: Children
I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?Collection: Want
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.Collection: Gun
As a result of the [9/11] attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their countries Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.Collection: Country
I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7-building 7, which collapsed in on itself-it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes-7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Lunch
I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Gone
Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.Collection: Children
You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!Collection: Stupid
I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.Collection: Weight
I love to be able to support other women comics.Collection: Support
I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.Collection: Dream
Public school teachers in Long Island, New York, saved my life in the '70s. They were involved and invested and helpful. One took me into her family and loved me back to life. She taught me that love is not formed and families are not formed by blood. That love makes a family.Collection: Teacher
I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!Collection: Boss
I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.Collection: Trying
I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.Collection: Vision
I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.Collection: Pain
The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!Collection: Teacher
My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.Collection: Goal
It's hard to find a reason that is not environmentally centered, that [doesn't have] something to do with global warming or what the planet is going through. The amount of tornadoesit's like three times the highest amount ever before, right? Something weird is happening with all of these natural catastrophes.Collection: Three
Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!Collection: Sex
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!Collection: Cutting
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.Collection: Religious
President Bush almost killed me.Collection: President
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.Collection: Thinking
I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.Collection: Mother
I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent.Collection: Gay
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.Collection: Mean
I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.Collection: Believe
Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."Collection: Cells
If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San FranciscoCollection: Thinking
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.Collection: Hard Work
I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Book
Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.Collection: Soul
Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.Collection: Kids
It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.Collection: Night
Without art there is no hope.Collection: Art
The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Dream
We really did. We got married.Collection: Aries
We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Mother