Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Whoopi Goldberg
I Can
Funny
Working
Related Quotes:
" I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Black
Fighting
Eyes
" I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me. "
Whoopi Goldberg
End
Look
Looking
" I am an artist, art has no color and no sex. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Sex
Art
Artist
" I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Okay
I Can
Baby
" I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Pet
Irritation
Whole
" If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Show
Doing
Kind
" The art of acting is to be other than what you are. "
Whoopi Goldberg
You
Other
Art
" 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? "
Whoopi Goldberg
Ghost
Black
Wait
" Born ham, that's basically me. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Me
Born
Basically
" 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. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Lie
Down
Clothes
" I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Possibilities
Believe
I Am
" Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Things Happen
Things
Luck
" If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Labor
Week
American
" You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Done
Got
Shame
" An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Actor
Woman
Play
" When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Like
Women
Listen
" I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Explain
Want
Sky
" It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Me
Jesus Christ
Got
" 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
Me
Up
Time
" Just call me black, if you want to call me anything. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Want
Black
Just
" We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Failure
Others
Point
" Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African. "
Whoopi Goldberg
News
Black
Listen
" Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Me
Everything
Just
" My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Believe
Family
Religions
" 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. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Work
Funny
My Own
" 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
" That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Mother
Mother Nature
Nature
" Actors have no color. That's the art form. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Form
Color
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. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Want
You
Power
" 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
Up
Good