Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

Whoopi Goldberg

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• I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Play
  • Simple
  • Watch

• I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Change
  • Crazy
  • Person

• I do have a sister - I have two sisters.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Sister
  • Two
  • Sisters

• Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Very
  • Well
  • Villain

• In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Parents
  • College
  • Training

• My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Mother
  • Die
  • Alzheimer

• Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Hate
  • See
  • Mistakes

• It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • American
  • Said
  • Phone

• Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

  

  Dorothy Stratten
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Compassion
  • Army

• I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Life

• 'Secret' is about intimacy between two people and the connection you have with someone that goes beyond words.

  

  Chelsea Lankes
  • People
  • Words
  • Connection

• When you say 'Monster Trucks,' people don't think monsters inside of trucks.

  

  Lucas Till
  • People
  • Monster

• I'm an investor in a lot of things that have to do with human-computer interaction.

  

  David Cohen

• The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.

  

  James Watkins
  • Long
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

  

  Jared Leto Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Unique

• I like to look casual yet chic. I love high fashion, vintage, and places like Zara, of course.

  

  Martha Hunt
  • High
  • Fashion

• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I live by a rulebook of eating alkaline - no meat, no dairy, no gluten, I try to stay away from sugar - but I'll cheat when I want to since I'm a bit of a foodie.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Live
  • Eating
  • Meat

• O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Heart
  • Won
  • Prize

• You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although I'm not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte

• [On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg