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Whoopi Goldberg [1955-0] American

Rank: 101
Actress

Caryn Elaine Johnson, known professionally by her stage name, Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, and television host.

Cool, Failure, Famous, Hope, Imagination, Nature, Pet, Strength, Success

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Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.		101
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.		102
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.	Cool	103
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.	Imagination	104
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.		105
You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.		106
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.	Nature	107
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.	Hope	108
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.		109
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.	Failure, Success	110
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.		111
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.		112
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.		113
I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.		114
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.		115
When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.		116
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.		117
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.		118
I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.		119
Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.		120
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.	Strength	121
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.	Famous	122
I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.	Pet	123
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.		124
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.		125
I don't really view communism as a bad thing.		126
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.		201
Born ham, that's basically me.		202
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.		203
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.		204
I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.		205
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.		206
If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.		207
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.		208
I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.		209
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.		210
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.		211
Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.		212
The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.		213
Actors have no color. That's the art form.		214
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.		215
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?		216
I'm as American as Chevrolet.		217
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.'		218

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