Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
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Most people still have this idea that if you're doing what is considered a sport you don't get to be a girl. You get to be a tomboy, which is one of those words that I actually hate.
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He was the beginning of a new dawn of comedy. It wasn't cute and sweet. It was a little scary.
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You`ve got to vote for someone. It`s a shame, but it`s got to be done.
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But I did love stories. I love fairy tales and I love spooky stories. Anything with a good 25 to 30-minute brain trip for me to go on. I still like to be read to.
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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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I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
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I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.
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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. 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.
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You look at the 'Wizard of Oz' and you see things flying up in the air…this is where everything goes that didn't land.
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Not that you're not youthful. You're very youthful, John. But he looks like he's 18!
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I know I`m never going up, for real, in anybody`s rocket ship. I know this because I hate to fly. Gene Roddenberry`s vision always included a multi-ethnic group of people. I thought that was pretty amazing. Be...
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I'm a big old egoistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
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If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read.
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I don`t have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
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Walker told black women that they don't have to be less than they are capable of being. I try to uphold that standard.
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Nobody ever encouraged me in this business. I encouraged myself. I was a very dull and shy child. I was the last person you would expect to be a success in this business. But I always felt if I kept going something would happen. But I even surprised mysel...
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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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It's easy to be unpopular with unpopular people, but it's harder to be unpopular with popular people.
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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 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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I did it because, frankly, I couldn`t get any other work then. I liked the show, so I asked if I could be on it. As a matter of fact, I asked twice. The first time, I sent...
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I'm at the place where I only want to work three weeks on any given movie, no more.
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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
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Actors have no color. That`s the art form.
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I have whole kennels of irritation.
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I`m a big old egoistical baby and that`s okay. I can accept it.
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I haven't done it for awhile but I love it. It is, after all, the Oscars of kids' programming.
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I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
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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.
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I don`t know if I`m the one who should be commenting on the situation. I can`t complain about the amount of work that`s out there. I am black. But I didn`t become black yesterday. I`m black and ...
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There's no better place in the world for meat, conversation and good old-fashioned friendship.
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This is something that's sort of close to my heart.
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I've had my hair like this from day one, mostly because it's much more comfortable and it looks good on my head.
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I think the NAACP is trying to gather some momentum. But you have to have a direction. And the only people who can tell us the direction are the young people.
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When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.
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The connections between us is family. Its just family. And its unshakable, you know. Because you look around and you see a great part of your active adult life. Great pa...
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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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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None of the stuff I`ve done will ever cure cancer. It`s entertainment and some of it has been better entertainment than others. Ghost (1990) is a good little movie, like Jumpin` Jack Flash (1986), which I`ve changed my mind about a...
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What I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone.
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Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine
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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
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Sometimes I wish that I could run as fast as they do and do just 90 percent of the things I see those folks doing. I would have loved to have learned how to be a really good soccer player because I really like soccer.
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We thought in the first year we were going to be able to get everybody off the streets.
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So, I truly don't know what my mom was doing financially. I know that we ate, and times weren't like they are now. I don't know that my mother could have achieved all she achieved on her income today. In today's market, at her income level, I'm sure we would be dirt poor. But back then we weren't.
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I was a teapot. I was a small teapot, short and stout, here was my handle, this was my spout. And I was like seven. It was the greatest. I was just bowing, and bowing.
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When John Kennedy was running for president he came to my neighborhood. It was the hottest day in a century, it was like 9,000 degrees. People came from all over Manhattan to my neighborhood to see this guy who talked about my country, and my part in it. This was the coolest thing.
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We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
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The words are the same words that we use with a little different implementation.
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I was comfortable. I knew we weren't Rockefellers, but it was never an issue because we went to places we needed to go - Coney Island, we went on the Circle Line, we had Central Park. There were things you could do without tons of money.
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That`s the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn`t care what economic bracket you`re in.
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don`t believe in man-made religions.
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We had some cute stuff to say, but you all don't care about that.
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There's only one me. And you know, they've tried to get others.
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As one who works inside and outside the system, I've come to understand that distribution is a key component,
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An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
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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.
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I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation
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I don't know if I'm the one who should be commenting on the situation. I can't complain about the amount of work that's out there. I am black. But I didn't become black yesterday. I'm black and I'm getting the work and I'm doing some good things, but I realize many black actors and actresses are not being given the opportunities. The industry has got to stop thinking in terms of black and white and has to start thinking in terms of who is right, regardless of color, for the role.
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I told her her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
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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.
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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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I told her (Alice Walker) I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
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Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
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My mom told me. I'd forgotten it. She also tells the story of my birth. I'm almost half kidding when I say, I came out and waved. My mother says that I came out head, arm, other arm, thumb in mouth, immediately. They were astounded, because generally that's not what you do.
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Once upon a time, we were very clear in this country about the direction we were going, and we were united, not just with our own, but with others who understood what the struggle is.
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I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
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Because I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. Everybody told me I wasn't stupid or dumb.
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Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
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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.
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Write things for yourself. Come on, it's a great way to spend time. It's a great way to learn history. It's a great way to learn all kinds of things. But only come if you're coming to play. If you're not coming to play, you should get another gig to supplement your acting.
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I'm dyslexic, so there weren't a whole lot of books in my early life.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
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I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
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You have to come as an original. If you come in and you're imitating everyone else, you get swept away in the game. But if you're coming as one unto yourself, they can't replace you; they can only try to get somebody who's like you.
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I think actually there's another young lady who would like to do it and so I've got my fingers crossed for her. I think it's Ellen. I think she would be good.
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One theory I believe is that when people die the spirit flies from them and fragments, and goes into people who are just coming into being. I believe I got hit with a lot of fragments from various people, that's my first theory.
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But [I] knew really from the first minute I met [Bloomberg] that I was going to try to make sure he stayed mayor.
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