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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Whoopi Goldberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
