Whoopi Goldberg Quotes (48 Quotes)

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

As one who works inside and outside the system, I've come to understand that distribution is a key component,

I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

You look at the 'Wizard of Oz' and you see things flying up in the airthis is where everything goes that didn't land.

Born ham, that's basically me.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

. . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

Sometimes I wish that I could run as fast as they do and do just 90 percent of the things I see those folks doing. I would have loved to have learned how to be a really good soccer player because I really like soccer.

I haven't done it for awhile but I love it. It is, after all, the Oscars of kids' programming.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.

(Walker) told black women that they don't have to be less than they are capable of being. I try to uphold that standard.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

This is something that's sort of close to my heart.

Most people still have this idea that if you're doing what is considered a sport you don't get to be a girl. You get to be a tomboy, which is one of those words that I actually hate.

When you are kind to someone, you hope they'll remember and be kind tosomeone else and it will become like wildfire.

Somehow we are supposed to be credits to our race. The mere fact that I'm still around makes me a credit to my race, which is the human race.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

We thought in the first year we were going to be able to get everybody off the streets.

I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

We had some cute stuff to say, but you all don't care about that.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

Good evening, loyal subjects. I am the African queen. Some of you may know me as the virgin queen, but I can't imagine who.

He was the beginning of a new dawn of comedy. It wasn't cute and sweet. It was a little scary.

There's no better place in the world for meat, conversation and good old-fashioned friendship.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out it was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

But I knew really from the first minute I met Bloomberg that I was going to try to make sure he stayed mayor.