Quote

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.

Whoopi Goldberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
Character Actor
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Manufacturer
Novelist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Singer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Caryn Elaine Johnson
Caryn Johnson
Whoopie Goldberg
Looks
Saying
Rip
Great
Stop
Closed
Even
Word
Majors
Mother
Major
Power
Mom
Anything
Door
Look
Doors
Without
Single

More quotes by Whoopi Goldberg

Image
You don't want to think something might be racist, but it might be, because your gut is telling you it is
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
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
Image
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.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
I'm as American as Chevrolet.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
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
Image
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.'
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
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
Image
[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
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
Image
There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
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.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.
Whoopi Goldberg
Image
I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do what I'm doing, came into me. There's a very nice feeling that there are many, many spirits inside of me looking after me . . .
Whoopi Goldberg