Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

I love acting, so it's easy when you have a passion for it. I've always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.

All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard... If I'm in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons - for my music.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times.

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

You simply have to love show business to make the risk worthwhile.

There are superstars that deserve to be at the top and do give everything.

Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.

I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.

My whole life, I've always tried to be a star.