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Whoopi Goldberg
American
Actress
About the author
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Art
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Nature
#Care
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,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Pretty
I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Communism
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.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Hope
#Trouble
Born ham, that's basically me.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Reason
#Self
#Artists
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Art
#Artist
#Sex
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
Actress
#Want
#American
#Country
#Dream
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Possibilities
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Eye
I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#End
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,
American
Actress
#Time
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Imagination
I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Want
#Sky
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,
American
Actress
#People
#Fighting
#Movies
#Eyes
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#American
#Labor
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,
American
Actress
#Want
#Strength
#Being
#Power
#Consequences
I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Pet
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.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Career
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Play
#Woman
#Actor
You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Vote
#Shame
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.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Love
#Act
#Actor
#Luck
#Famous
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Nothing
#Machine
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,
American
Actress
#Work
#Clothes
#Lie
When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Thought
#Women
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Whoopi Goldberg,
American
Actress
#Luck