A biography for Rosie O'Donnellhasn’t been written yet.
“What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.”
“There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.”
“I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.”
“I think life is easier if you're straight.”
“Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.”
“I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.”
“I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.”
“I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.”
“I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.”
“Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound.”
“I am one of the haunted.”
“I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am.”
“If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.”
“My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.”
“I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.”
“I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.”
“I was an abused kid.”