Quotes by Whoopi Goldberg

It's a no brainer. If you're not for gay marriage, don't marry a gay person.

The advantage of dyslexia is that my brain puts information in my head in a different way.

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

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.

The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

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!

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?

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

In order to sell in all the different places where medical marijuana is legal, you have to build a facility and grow in the state you're selling in, so it's daunting.

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.'

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.

I dig being a mother.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

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.'

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 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.

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.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE.

I have a production company, and we work with reality TV producers 44 Blue. They asked if we'd like to get involved. When they explained that it was the first transgender modeling agency, we said, Yeah, of course!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

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

I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, Get the government out of my backyard, the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.

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

Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm fighting the label of Black actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

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

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 an artist, art has no color and no sex.

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

Born ham, that's basically me.

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

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

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.

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

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

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.

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

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

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.

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

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

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

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

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.

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

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

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

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

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

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