Quotes By Whoopi Goldberg

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

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

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

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

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

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

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.

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

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

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

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

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

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

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

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

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.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

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.

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

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

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

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

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

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.

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.

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.