Whoopi goldberg

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.