Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes

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

Whoopi Goldberg

• People
• Black
• Eye

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Years
  • Point
  • Early

• I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Experience
  • Fear
  • Violence

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Independent
  • Intellectual

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Feeling
  • Financial
  • Independence

• Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Teacher
  • Hell
  • Tragedy

• Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

  

  Ovid
  • Make
  • Materials
  • Surpass

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Pleasure
  • Need
  • Animals

• Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Never
  • Old
  • Judges

• I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • High
  • Game
  • Think

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Fashion
  • Style

• You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life

• The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

  

  Claude Debussy

• In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

  

  Psy
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Culture

• Consider the possibility of infinite possibility.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Possibility
  • Consider
  • Infinite

• Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Writing

• La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.

  

  Antonio Gramsci

• Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.

  

  Alain Juppe
  • World
  • Strong

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

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Black
  • Eye