Top 111 Oprah Quotes

No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

I got the famous Oprah hug!

It would be my goal for Palin to become Oprah and be the ultimate kingmaker for twenty-odd years.

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

A couple of my favorite podcasts are ‘Still Processing’ from ‘The New York Times,’ Oprah’s ‘Super Soul Conversations,’ RuPaul’s ‘What’s the Tee?’

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for ‘Kids Say the Darndest Things,’ so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on ‘The Rosie O’Donnell Show’ and ‘Oprah.’

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on ’cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

She’s equally as gracious as someone who shares experiences with you as she is as a superior. What’s so graceful about her is that no matter what, she’s just Oprah.

My kids are really dope. I was just at home in Chicago, and my daughter Brittany was interviewing me. It was like I was on ‘Oprah.’

I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey’s show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams.

I absolutely love Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global consciousness. I think she’s phenomenal.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she’s a brilliant businesswoman. She’s also somebody who’s overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that’s really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she’s gonna pay for it!

I always felt like, ‘I hope Oprah teaches a class to everybody when they get super famous about how to use, responsibly, that blessing.’

I’ve known Oprah since 1998 or 1999. It is incredible how amazing she is. When you are around her, you see how considerate, giving and wonderful she is with the people around her.

I’m just comfortable in front of the camera. I’m like the male Oprah.

I don’t think I’m the ‘Oprah’ type.

I’ve met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too… I have an idea or two.

If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ Sarah Palin would be that woman.

I like to tell people that I have some of the biggest mentors in the world… they just don’t know I exist. Dave Ramsey, Sara Blakely, Oprah, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard – I’ve learned everything I know from their wisdom through books, podcasts and conferences.

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like ‘Oprah’ and ‘Ellen,’ are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we’ve had in quite a long time, if ever.

I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, ‘What would Oprah say right now?’ and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there’s no reason for anybody to stop you.

Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

I’m looking to do an honest job, and I don’t have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I’m not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.

When I was in South Korea, the books that I read about Americans were actually Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. If this country actually oppresses people and enslaves the people, how are those two women billionaires?

I say, do not mess with Oprah. The one person in America you shouldn’t mess with.

Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.

You know how Oprah has her moment about bread? Mine’s about boots. You could wear it to a meeting at work. You could wear it to a date.You could wear it to a wedding with a suit.

Oprah’s stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can’t imagine a greater success than she’s enjoyed.

I have met Madonna. I have met Oprah Winfrey. I have met some of the most phenomenal people alive.

I’m an athlete and I’m black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I’m paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, ‘You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.’

I want to be a combination of P. Diddy and Oprah.

I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don’t think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn’t struck by that.

There’s no doubt that the Weight Watchers’ long-term collaboration with Oprah Winfrey has certainly accelerated the company’s progress since October 2015, with high awareness of her success and happiness with the program sparking interest and excitement.

Oprah is definitely a self-made woman and she came from being dirt poor, as did I.

My mom used to call me ‘Oprah’ because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I’ve always been attracted to storytelling around women’s lives.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, ‘Ah, I saw you on ‘Larry King,’ and, ‘Ah, I saw you on ‘Oprah.’ And it’s really nice, and a lot of people say, ‘Is it a pain?’ And I say ‘No.’ And it’s not annoying.

As a little kid, I would watch Oprah almost every day.

I’m extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don’t mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn’t exist, as did Oprah.

People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah – there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she’s still being Oprah if anybody hasn’t noticed… what I bring to TV is myself… I really think there’s space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

I would really like to create my own show. And I really wanna meet Oprah.

I think people find a lot to relate to in my social media, being a mom, and trying to live my best life, and I’m a fan of Oprah and other things people are fans of, and my heart breaks when there are tragedies, like everyone else, and I want to help.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven’t found with any interviewer.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.

When you’re true to yourself – not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah – they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

You won’t see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that’s not who I am.

Every year, I looked forward to Oprah Winfrey’s Favorite Things episode. I watched with my notebook computer in my lap so I could Google the items and order them for the friends and family on my holiday gift-giving list.

I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director’s assistant on the film ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God,’ which Oprah produced.

There’s nobody telling Oprah what to do. There’s no one telling David Letterman what he can and can’t do. You’ve got to have 100 percent support from everybody who’s behind the show, across the board.

I’d definitely have some butterflies if the day ever came when I’d get to sit down with Oprah.

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn’t have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does – his is in plain sight.

I’m sounding like Oprah, but if you’re not practicing contentment where you are now, you’re not getting contentment when you get what you want.

To work with Miss Oprah has been amazing. To have her in my corner and inspire me and uplift me has been amazing.

People think that I don’t work, and I fly around in Oprah’s private plane doing whatever I want.

I am not immune to Oprah’s charms, but President Winfrey is a terrible idea.

I’ve made a point throughout my girls’ lives of reading them bedtime stories about strong, innovating women, whether it’s Oprah Winfrey or Frida Kahlo.