A biography for Whoopi Goldberghasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.”
“Actors have no color. That's the art form.”
“I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.”
“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.”
“I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.”
“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.”
“Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.”
“I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.”
“Normal is in the eye of the beholder.”
“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 listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.”