Quotes by Whoopi Goldberg

• Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing 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.
• When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.
• Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
• The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
• That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
• 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 don't really view communism as a bad thing.
• 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.
• Born ham, that's basically me.
• For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
• I am an artist, art has no color and no 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.
• I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
• Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
• I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.
• I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.
• I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
• I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
• If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
• 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 have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
• 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.
• An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
• You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
• 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.