Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
"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."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Work, Lie, Clothes)
"When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Women, Thought)
"Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Luck)
"The art of acting is to be other than what you are."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Art, Acting)
"That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Nature, Mother, Care)
"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."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Acting, Pretty)
"I don't really view communism as a bad thing."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Communism)
"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."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Hope, Trouble)
"Born ham, that's basically me."
- Whoopi Goldberg
"For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Artists, Reason, Self)
"I am an artist, art has no color and no sex."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Art, Sex, Artist)
"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."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Dream, American, Country, Want)
"I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Possibilities)
"Normal is in the eye of the beholder."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Eye)
"I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: End)
"I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Time)
"I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Imagination)
"I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Sky, Want)
"I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Movies, People, Eyes, Fighting)
"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: American, Labor)
"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."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Power, Strength, Being, Consequences, Want)
"I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Pet)
"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."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Career)
"An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Actor, Play, Woman)
"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Shame, Vote)
"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."
- Whoopi Goldberg
(Related: Love, Act, Actor, Famous, Luck)