Really, darling, it's a no-brainer. You know, I understand not everybody is for gay marriage. But if you're not for gay marriage, don't marry a gay person. That's what I say
Whoopi GoldbergRead
You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Pursue acting for the passion of the craft rather than for fame.
Whoopi Goldberg emphasizes that the true essence of acting lies in the love for the art itself, suggesting that seeking fame as a primary motivation is misguided and based on chance. This quote reflects the importance of genuine passion and dedication over superficial goals in any creative endeavor.
Themes
ActingPassionFameCreativityDedication
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams in the arts.
More from Whoopi Goldberg
All quotes βAnd I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.
Whoopi GoldbergRead
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.
Whoopi GoldbergRead
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
Whoopi GoldbergRead
Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
Whoopi GoldbergRead
I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.
Whoopi GoldbergRead
Similar quotes
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
Annie ProulxRead
I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.
Robert IrwinRead
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore De BalzacRead
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings β the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality β actually exist.
Tracy K. SmithRead
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.
William TrevorRead
I certainly enjoy Usher, Beyonce, Chris Brown, and there is Fantasia; these people will be around a while. They've got it. They've got the 'it' factor.
Aretha FranklinRead