Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

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

Whoopi Goldberg

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• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Love
  • Business
  • Respect

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Years
  • Talking

• I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Write
  • Ambition
  • Four

• Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Great
  • You
  • Musicians

• I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Pretty
  • Dance
  • Brother

• I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • World
  • Show

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Universe

• I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Play
  • Cool
  • Dangerous

• I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Know
  • Never

• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long
  • Society
  • Space

• Can’t keep hanging onTo all that’s dead and goneIf you built yourself a mythYou'd know just what to giveMaterializeOr let the ashes fly

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Fly

• I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci

• It's irresponsible to put uncorroborated information on the Internet.

  

  Jake Tapper

• It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • People
  • Children
  • Influence

• If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Help
  • Light
  • Picture

• Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Technology

• Art has never been a popularity contest.

  

  James Levine
  • Art

• Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Great
  • Art
  • Doubt

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

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Art
  • Color
  • Actors