Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

Play the black card expertly, and you can win awards, make millions - all the while claiming that the people who got you there somehow hate you.

I always have that in the back of my head - the idea that I've been spoon-fed because of where I'm from. I think that's one of the main things that drives me to work harder to show that, in reality, I haven't been handed anything.

The star family status can easily get you opportunities, but the offers dry up after a point when you don't prove yourself.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

I'm spoiled in the sense that now I get what I want but it's because I work for it.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I'm worth it, then everything should be fine.

I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.

Don't let awards get the best of you.

The Emmy nomination did a world of good for my confidence.

Awards are like a pat of appreciation from the jury and viewers. It is almost like them saying, 'So, you have done well; we expect you to carry on doing good work.'

I am happy. I have won many awards, but it is the national award that I was waiting for. This means everything to me.

I only think that awards are important to everybody and if not that, a nomination serves as a recognition and a positive drive to do better work.

I work incredibly hard - just like every other person in business and work. And aside from the fact of, yes, I am the brother of someone very important, I am, at the end of the day, just James.

An award, to me, means a bonus. It's not that an actor works for an award. I don't work for an award. But, when you get an award, it is encouraging and inspiring and reminds you that you need to do well.

Anyone can achieve it if they're given the opportunity to.

Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.

I hate when people say, 'Well, this is unfair for the underdog.' Well, the underdog should try harder.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.