Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

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

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• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Done
  • Role
  • Broadway

• By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Responsibility

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• 'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Character
  • Career
  • Singer

• Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Interesting
  • Wisdom
  • Challenge

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Done
  • Dream

• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Better

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Red
  • Awkward

• I like being by myself.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Being

• We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Man
  • Know

• Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable. Getting mad blunted in the S-500.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Mad

• And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Up

• Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Faith

• I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Stop

• I think writing and singing go together, but I treat them as two separate careers because I write for others. If I'm writing for myself, I prefer to be with the producer. And then we can vibe out and throw ideas back and forth, and I'll basically let the producer play me a bunch of beats until I vibe with one.

  

  Kehlani
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Singing

• And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

  

  Bobby Knight
  • Time
  • Coaching

• I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Brain
  • Serious

• Proue thy fréende er thou haue néede, but in déede A fréende is neuer knoen tyll a man haue néede.

  

  John Heywood

• I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Up
  • She

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

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
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