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" 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. "

Whoopi Goldberg

American

Dream

I Am

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" 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? "

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

" If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests. "

" 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. "

" Normal is in the eye of the beholder. "

" I don't really view communism as a bad thing. "

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

" 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. "

Whoopi Goldberg

Acting

Good

" I am an artist, art has no color and no sex. "

" 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. "

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

Whoopi Goldberg

Time

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

" An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything. "

" My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. "

" Born ham, that's basically me. "

Whoopi Goldberg

Born

Basically

" I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it. "

" The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American. "

" 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. "

" 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 am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. "

" Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. "

" Actors have no color. That's the art form. "

" When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. "

Whoopi Goldberg

Women

Listen

" 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. "

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

" Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works. "

Whoopi Goldberg

Everything

Just

" I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. "

" Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented. "