Zitat des Tages von Whoopi Goldberg:
Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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?
Actors have no color. That's the art form.
Born ham, that's basically me.
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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.
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.
All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.
You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.
The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.