Top 94 Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
#1. Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
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#3. I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me ...
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#4. 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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#5. When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.
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#6. It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention
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#7. My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.
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#8. I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
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#9. 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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#10. Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
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#11. I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
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#12. The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.
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#13. 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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#15. 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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#16. We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.
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#17. In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.
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#18. 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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#19. We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.
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#23. Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.
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#24. 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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#25. It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
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#26. 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?
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#27. Really, darling, it's a no-brainer. You know, I understand not everybody is for gay marriage. But if you're not for gay marriage, don't marry a gay person. That's what I say
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#28. When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. An actress can only play a woman,I'm an actor I can play anything
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#33. I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.
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#35. I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.
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#36. I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.
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#37. If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
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#39. There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.
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#40. If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.
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#41. Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.
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#42. If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.
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#43. Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?
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#47. You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is
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#48. The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.
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#49. 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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#50. I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
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#51. I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
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#52. [On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
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#54. You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.
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#55. I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.
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#56. 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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#57. We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.
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#58. You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
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#60. I should not ever live with anyone, because I just don't have the patience for it. I'm very cranky around other people.
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#61. I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.
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#62. [On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
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#63. My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
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#64. I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
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#65. No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'
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#67. 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.
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#68. Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
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#69. [On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.
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#70. Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
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#71. If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
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#74. The only argument you can make against having [Confederate] flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag ...
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.
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#79. 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.
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#81. I don't think in terms of failure ... I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.
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#82. It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
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#83. Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.
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#84. That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
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#86. Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
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#87. Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
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#88. If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?
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#89. You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time ...
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#90. 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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#91. Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?
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#92. TALIBAN-ESQUE Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. WIth them, it's my way or no way.
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#93. If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'
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