Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

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.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.

I had gone through several crazy headache bouts, and I realized that part of the reason I was having them was because I wasn't smoking marijuana. When my daughter gave me a vape pen, I realized that I could relegate it to where I needed it to be. And I would talk to my older grandkids in their 20s, and they'd say they use weed to stop cramps. That's when I really started to investigate and asked the question, "Is anybody doing this?" And they gave me that horrifying answer: "niche market".

Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?

If you had women running the weed market, I think there'd be lots of different products. I know periods. I know how horrible they are, and I know enough people who suffer from them that I really want to speak to them so they can carry something in their pocketbook for relief. Or come home, get in a tub, and soak with something that will actually work.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.

Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean - that was the reason the law came into effect.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.

My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

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.

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.

If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

In order to sell in all the different places where medical marijuana is legal, you have to build a facility and grow in the state you're selling in, so it's daunting.

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've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and to get hippies...that to me is just as shitty as saying all Mexicans are murderers and rapists. Or all Muslims. That's what I'm paying attention to. And everybody is hedging their bets when it comes to marijuana. The government is sitting on this lie saying it's a gateway drug.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

Well, one of the things we felt was missing from the greater conversation is that transgender people have been living and working in America for years...People may think it's a "new" thing; it's not...So we wanted to show not just the political side, which is what you see with Caitlyn Jenner. And not the other side with Laverne Cox, who's great.

I dig being a mother.

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.