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.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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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.
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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.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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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.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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I love going away with friends - it gets a bit raucous and fun.
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Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.
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'They're dangerous people, and what's really frightening is that they don't know it, they don't see themselves as dangerous... they see the danger elsewhere. The danger is always elsewhere. How convenient.' source
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Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.
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I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
