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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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" 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

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

" Normal is in the eye of the beholder. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Just call me black, if you want to call me anything. "

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me. "

" 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. "

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

Whoopi Goldberg

Women

Listen

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Born ham, that's basically me. "

Whoopi Goldberg

Born

Basically

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies. "

" 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. "

Whoopi Goldberg

Jesus Christ

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