goldberg Quotes

“Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.”

“Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.”

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

“Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.”

“I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.”

“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.”

“When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.”

“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.”

“I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.”

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”