Words matter. These are the best Whoopi Goldberg Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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’ve got to vote for someone. It’s a shame, but it’s got to be done.
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.
When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.
I’m as American as Chevrolet.
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
I don’t have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I’m working. I can tell stories, and there’s some funny in them.
I don’t look like Halle Berry. But chances are she’s going to end up looking like me.
We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
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.
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
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.
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.
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it’s got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
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.
I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. ‘Ghost’ was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I’m black? Oh, am I black?
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 am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
Actors have no color. That’s the art form.
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.
I don’t have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.
Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.
An actress can only play a woman. I’m an actor, I can play anything.
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
That’s the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn’t care what economic bracket you’re in.
The Africans know I’m not an African. I’m an American.
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
