Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

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.

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.

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.

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

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

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

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. 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. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

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.

If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?

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.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

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.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

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.

I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

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

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.

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.'

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is

I'd like everyone to imagine a world where you get a job as Tom, and then the next day you're Tina. Imagine you're in the world where you love what you do, but people say that you can't be who you are.

What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic!

Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.

When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

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.

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.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

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.

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

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

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

I dig being a mother.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

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

Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

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...

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.

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.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.