Whoopi Goldberg Quotes
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
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Normal is just a cycle on the washing machine.
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
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[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
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An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
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Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.
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I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
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I have a production company, and we work with reality TV producers 44 Blue. They asked if we'd like to get involved. When they explained that it was the first transgender modeling agency, we said, "Yeah, of course!"
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I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.
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I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.
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Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.
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Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
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When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.
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I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out of my backyard," the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.
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It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
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I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.
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Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
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I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?