Rosie O'donnell Quotes

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.

~ Rosie O'donnell

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.

~ Rosie O'donnell

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

~ Rosie O'donnell

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

~ Rosie O'donnell

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

~ Rosie O'donnell

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.

~ Rosie O'donnell

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.

~ Rosie O'donnell

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

~ Rosie O'donnell