Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

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.

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.

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.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

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.'

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.

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.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

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.

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

Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

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

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

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?

I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.

I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.

When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on.

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

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.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

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.

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.

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.'

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.

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.

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

People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.

I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.

Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.

Art is long, life is short.

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.