Top 80 Whoopi Goldberg Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you’ve got to wake up and pay attention.”

— Whoopi Goldberg

2. “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.”

— Whoopi Goldberg

3. “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

4. “In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you’ll survive.”

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5. “I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”

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6. “Before you judge me, look in the mirror.”

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7. “If You don’t like Gay Marriage, Don’t Marry a Gay Person.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “It never occurs to me that there are things I can’t do.”

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10. “Normal is in the eye of the beholder.”

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11. “You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.”

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

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

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

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

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16. “You couldn’t always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.”

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

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18. “When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.”

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19. “When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on...”

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20. “I don’t have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.”

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21. “If you don’t look out for others, who will look out for you?”

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22. “Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”

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23. “I don’t really view communism as a bad thing.”

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24. “We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.”

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25. “Sometimes experience trumps assumption.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you’ll be alright.”

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28. “Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE.”

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29. “Art is long, life is short.”

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30. “I should not ever live with anyone, because I just don’t have the patience for it. I’m very cranky around other people.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.”

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34. “When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, ‘Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!’ I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.”

— Whoopi Goldberg

35. “An actress can only play a woman. I’m an actor, I can play anything.”

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36. “Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let’s face it, it turns out I’m black. And I’m having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.”

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37. “No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you’re not thinking, ‘oh, please pick me.’”

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38. “My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don’t believe in man-made religions.”

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39. “I don’t look like Halle Berry. But chances are she’s going to end up looking like me.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “I’d like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That’s what I want. I don’t want to get taxed just because I died. I just don’t think it’s right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?”

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42. “Really, darling, it’s a no-brainer. You know, I understand not everybody is for gay marriage. But if you’re not for gay marriage, don’t marry a gay person. That’s what I say.”

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

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44. “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.”

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45. “Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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.”

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

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50. “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.”

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