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I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Like, Going, Halle Berry, Berry

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Eye, Normal, Beholder

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Doing, Kind, Show, Guests

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Dislike, Idea, Nowadays, African-American

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Church, Christ, Imagine, Bummed

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Color, Pretty, Spielberg, Steven

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?

- Whoopi Goldberg

Wait, Everybody, Same Thing, Strangest

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Career, Other, Side, Fence

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Country, Everybody, Meryl, Why Not

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Hours, Full-Time, Donated, Volunteers

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Doing, Some, My Own, Berkeley

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Idea, I Think, Inner Self, Gravy

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Nature, About, Really, Economic

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Making, Actress, Very, Limiting

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

- Whoopi Goldberg

I Am, Possibilities, Where, I Believe

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.'

- Whoopi Goldberg

Back, Some, Maybe, Stink

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

- Whoopi Goldberg

Shame, Someone, Got, Vote

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Man-Made, Buddhist, Catholic

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Color, Used, Wanted, Grass

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

- Whoopi Goldberg

Normal, More, Machine, Washing

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

- Whoopi Goldberg

Luck, Happen, Around, Talented

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Big, Old, Okay, Egotistical

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

- Whoopi Goldberg

Communism, View, Bad, Bad Thing

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Art, Color, Form, Art Form

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Thought, Like, Makes, Knocks

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Strength, Doing, Away, Gives

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Hope, Kind, Like, Trouble

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

- Whoopi Goldberg

American, Know, African

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Country, Epitome, Could, American Dream

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Tell, Anything, Grew, Occurred

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