Quotes By Whoopi Goldberg

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.

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

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

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.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

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.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

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

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

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.

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.

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 don't really view communism as a bad thing.

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.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.