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

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

- Whoopi Goldberg

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

- Whoopi Goldberg

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.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

- Whoopi Goldberg

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

- Whoopi Goldberg

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

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

- Whoopi Goldberg

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.'

- Whoopi Goldberg

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

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

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

- Whoopi Goldberg

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

- Whoopi Goldberg

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

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

- Whoopi Goldberg

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.

- Whoopi Goldberg

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

- Whoopi Goldberg

Born ham, that's basically me.

- Whoopi Goldberg

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

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