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" An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything. "
Whoopi Goldberg
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" Normal is in the eye of the beholder. "
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" We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me. "
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" If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. "
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" All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.' "
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" There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together. "
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" 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. "
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" If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't really view communism as a bad thing. "
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" My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. "
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" I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it. "
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" I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do. "
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