“I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tel...” — Whoopi Goldberg 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.

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.

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

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

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.

I have spoken to refs after games, just to ask about something that had occurred during a game. It's always been off the record and I've never had a ref not answer.

I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It's something that never occurred to me - a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky.