Quotes from Whoopi Goldberg

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.

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

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

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

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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