Quotes By Whoopi Goldberg

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.

Born ham, that's basically me.

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.