Whoopi Goldberg
Actress
1955-11-13
Quotes by Whoopi Goldberg
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Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.
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Art is long, life is short.
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I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.
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People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.
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We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
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Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
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We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
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People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.
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Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
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I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.
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Art is long, life is short.
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Art is long, life is short. Unless your funding is f%$ked, in which case all our days are numbered.
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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.
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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.'
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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?
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It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
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Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.
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If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
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Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
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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.
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