Famous quotes by Whoopi Goldberg:

"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."

"Normal is in the eye of the beholder."

"An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything."

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

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

"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."

". . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone."

"I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation"

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

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

"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."

"Born ham, that's basically me."

"I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."