Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

You need someone to ground you because if you start believing that your public persona is your only and real persona, then you're looking at a very long and lonely old age.

I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

I just see myself as a short, dumpy guy with bad feet, and I'm passionate.

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'