ELLEN DEGENERES: Be True To Yourself
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hank you,
President Cowan, Mrs. President Cowen illustrious visitors, ordinary visitors,
you know who you are, privileged sense and creepy Spanish educator.
And thank
you to all the measure off class of 2009, I understand most of you are hang
over and have split headache and haven’t sleep since Fat Tuesday, but you can’t
mark off ’til I finish, so pay attention up.
When I was
asked to make the beginning speech, I right away said yes. Then I went to look
up what beginning meant which would have been simple. If I had a lexicon.
But most of
the volumes in our house are Portia’s, and they’re all on paper in Australian.
So I had to smash the word down myself, to discover out the meaning. beginning:
common, and strengthen, common strengthen.
You usually
see bolster on sidewalks. Sidewalks have breaks, and if you step on a fracture,
you break your protest’s back. So there’s that.
But I’m privileged
that you’ve inquire me at this time to talk at your common bolster. I consideration
that you had to be a well-known alumnus, alumina, aluminum, alum is:
“You had to measure
off from this school. And I didn’t go to school here, and I don’t know. If leader
Cowan knows, I didn’t go to any university at all, any college.”
And I’m not
saying you exhausted your time, or cash, but seem at me, I’m a huge famous
person. Although I did mark off from the educate of hard knocks, our mascot was
the knockers.
I exhausted
a lot of time here rising up. My mom job at Newcomb and I would go there whenever.
I needed to whip something out of her prize.
But why am I
here nowadays? Clearly not to pinch, you’re too distant away and I’d never get absent
with it. I’m here because of you. Because I can’t think of a more stubborn,
more brave graduating group of students.
I mean, look
at you all, tiring your robes. More often than not when you’re exhausting a
robe at 10 in the sunup, it means you’ve known up. I’m here. Since I feel
affection for New Orleans.
I was born
and lifted here, I spent my determining years here, and similar to you, even as.
I was living here. I only did laundry six times. When I over school, I was
completely misplaced and by school.
I mean center
school, but I went in front and done high school anyway. And I actually, I had
no goal. I didn’t know what I required to do. I did the whole thing.
And I would
make sufficient money to pay my rent, maybe have essential cable, maybe not, I
didn’t actually have a plan, my point is so as to, by the time.
I was your era,
I really consideration I know. Who I was. but I had no thought. Like for prototype.
when I was
your era, I was meeting men. So what I’m maxim is, when you’re elder, most of
you will be gay.
Anyone script
this material down? blood relations? Anyway, I had no thought what I required
to do with my existence and the way I ended up on this way was from a very disastrous
event.
I was maybe
nineteen, and my girlfriend at the time was murdered in a car mishap. And I
passed the mishap, and I didn’t know it was her and I reserved going and I
found out soon after that, it was her.
And I was
living in a basement dwelling. I had no currency. I had no warmth, no air, I
had a mattress on the ground and the apartment building was diseased with louses.
And I was soul-penetrating.
I was like,
why is she abruptly gone, and there are louses here? I don’t appreciate, there
must be a reason and wouldn’t it be so suitable if we could pick up the telephone
and call God and ask these queries.
And I started
writing and what poured out of me was an imaginary discussion with God, which
was biased and I over writing it and I appear at it.
And I said in
my opinion, and I hadn’t even been doing humorist, ever, there was no club in municipality.
I said, “I’m going do this on the Tonight demonstrate with Johnny Carson” at
the time he was the ruler.
And only
woman in the past of the show to take a seat down, because of that phone discussion
with God that I wrote.
And I
started this trail of stand-up comedian and it was victorious and it was huge
but it was firm. Because I was attempting to please everyone and I had this covert
that I was custody.
That I was
gay. And I consideration. If people establish out they wouldn’t like me. They
wouldn’t chuckle at me. Then my profession twisted into, I got my own sitcom, and
that was very victorious, another plane of success.
