Oprah Winfrey Quotes - Page 1 | QuoteForever

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Oprah Winfrey is such an inspiring person.
Dylan Lauren /
Inspiring
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
My first job ever was, I got hired by Oprah Winfrey.
Karamo Brown /
Job
Job First First Job
First Job
Hired
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman.
Naomi Alderman / Author
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Young Woman
Copy Quote
The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.
Cristina Saralegui / Journalist
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
I have met Madonna. I have met Oprah Winfrey. I have met some of the most phenomenal people alive.
Perez Hilton / Blogger
Alive
Phenomenal
Madonna
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
Madonna Ciccone / Singer-Songwriter
Causes
Chicago
Conservative
Facts
Aside
Cause
Fact
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' Sarah Palin would be that woman.
Andrew Breitbart / Publisher
Destined
Palin
Candidate
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Palin
Sarah
Shine
Copy Quote
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
Uzo Aduba / Actress
Confident
Joking
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!
Iyanla Vanzant / Spiritual Teacher
Compelled
Needs
Pay
Shows
Feel Your Own
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
Oprah Winfrey has a spiritual connection with so much of this country, and it was built over years and years of doing that talk show.
Dagen Mcdowell /
Country
Spiritual
Years
Talk
Much
Show
Doing
Connection
Over
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Talk Show
Years And Years
Copy Quote
The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it that way.
Ross Douthat / Author
Figures
Long Time
Secular
Time Long Long Time
Time Long Way
Time Long Always
Intelligentsia
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'
Iyanla Vanzant / Spiritual Teacher
Giving
Mouths
Sorry
Oprah
Mouth
Oprah Winfrey
Shut
Copy Quote
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
Carrie Fisher / Actress
Cookies
Ideas
Jars
No Idea
Cookie
Existed
Jar
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Prior
Copy Quote
I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.
Nick Cave / Musician
Care
Don't Care
Proud
Rooms
Watched
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Says
Copy Quote
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.
Michael Eric Dyson / Author
Black
Creative
Creative Expression
Ingenious
Long Time
Mainstream
Spiritual
Time Long Black
Quite
Public
Time Black Long
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Quite A Long Time
Copy Quote
I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
Barry Jenkins /
Assistant
Eyes
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Produced
Copy Quote
I absolutely love Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global consciousness. I think she's phenomenal.
Gwendoline Christie / Model
Consciousness
Expansion
Phenomenal
Seems
Absolutely
Businesswoman
Campaign
Global
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.
Robert Kiyosaki / Investor
Armstrong
Focused
Great Success
Order
People
Wealth
Winning
Achieved
Success Great Look
Intensely
Lance Armstrong
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Warren
Warren Buffett
Copy Quote
I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.
Robert B. Parker / Crime Writer
Causes
Interesting
News
Cause
Herself
Oprah
None
Oprah Winfrey
Slow
Several
Sufficiently
Copy Quote
I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.
Jenni Rivera / Singer-Songwriter
Host
Course
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know of hundreds of black women whose net worth is over $1 million.
A'lelia Bundles /
Johnson
Net Worth
Bet
Billionaires
Hundreds
Least
Oprah
Million
Net
Oprah Winfrey
Whose
Copy Quote
In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.
Lee Siegel /
Chicago
Quiet
Revolution
Cultural
Entered
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Stages
Copy Quote
Being asked by Oprah Winfrey to be on her show and do her eyebrows in 2006 - to me, that was like getting an Oscar. It was a stamp of approval from a woman that is incredible. It propelled my career to a different level.
Anastasia Soare /
Approval
Eyebrows
Different Level
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Stamp
Copy Quote
Ms. Oprah Winfrey gave me some advice to just always stay in the moment, and don't waste energy on negative things, and put your energy into positive things in your life. I just try to remember that every day and keep on going.
Storm Reid /
Positive
Advice
Energy
Negative
Positive Things
Remember
Waste
Positive Life Always
Life Always Moment
Positive Life Me
Try
Positive Life Moment
Stay
Day
Every Day
Gave
Oprah
Put
Moment
Ms
Oprah Winfrey
Some
Copy Quote
No show can be 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' including 'The Gayle King Show.' I think she's very good but I think I'm very good too. I think we have different skill sets... but I don't think that I could do what she does and never have.
Gayle King / Magazine Editor
Including
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Sets
Skill
Copy Quote
The clock has been turned back on racial progress in America, though scarcely anyone seems to notice. All eyes are fixed on people like Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey who have defied the odds and achieved great power, wealth, and fame.
Michelle Alexander / Professor
Barack
Clock
Fame
Fixed
Great Power
Odds
Seems
Wealth
Achieved
Obama
Barack Obama
Defied
Eyes
Oprah
Notice
Oprah Winfrey
Racial
Scarcely
Turned
Copy Quote
Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
Octavia Spencer / Actress
Cried
Denzel
Dying
Excited
Star
Washington
Denzel Washington
Retire
Oprah
Meet
Meeting
Oprah Winfrey
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Struck
Copy Quote
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
Chris Bohjalian / Novelist
Lifetime
Nba
Never Expect
Phone Calls
Phones
Stockholm
Swedish
Accent
Calls
Despairing
Phone
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Receive
Waited
Copy Quote
I used to watch Oprah Winfrey, and whenever she used to lose weight, I used to be like, 'How's she losing it? What is she doing?' But it's all about education and knowledge, feeding yourself and knowing that too much carbs is what gets us fat.
Fat Joe / Rapper
Knowledge
Carbs
Feeding
Losing
Too Much
Weight
Fat
Watch
Gets
Lose
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Whenever
Copy Quote
I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too... I have an idea or two.
Ross Mathews / Television Personality
Advice
Quality Time
Twice
Time Me Quality
Oprah
Minute
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
If you're making something tangible, whether it's clothing, a song, a piece of art... when you create something that's outside of yourself you take a bit of the pain and it's released, you let it out a little bit. That's my Oprah Winfrey moment.
Olly Alexander /
Tangible
Clothing
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Released
Copy Quote
I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.
Sara Blakely / Businesswoman
Apartment
Boxes
Chosen
Department
Products
Shipping
Spanx
Tvs
Two
Two Weeks
Tv
Show
Weeks
Call
Loved
Favorite
Her
Oprah
Notice
Oprah Winfrey
Product
She
Copy Quote
These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.
George Lois / Art Director
Brad
Julia
Leonardo
Visual
Brad Pitt
Cover
Dicaprio
Julia Roberts
Leonardo Dicaprio
Magazine
Magazine Cover
Oprah
Match
Oprah Winfrey
Pitt
Punch
Roberts
Copy Quote
I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.
Chip Kidd / Author
Jackets
Cover
World Your Trying
Jacket
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
There's no doubt that the Weight Watchers' long-term collaboration with Oprah Winfrey has certainly accelerated the company's progress since October 2015, with high awareness of her success and happiness with the program sparking interest and excitement.
Mindy Grossman /
Accelerate
Collaboration
Excitement
Long Term
No Doubt
October
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
Martha Stewart convinced me to have a business. She sometimes takes a very personal interest, and she kept saying, 'You have to open your own business,' and gave me chances. She took my cakes on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I met a lot of people through her.
Ron Ben-Israel / Pastry Chef
Business Me People
Business Your Me
Cakes
Chances
Martha
Oprah
Martha Stewart
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.
Lee Siegel /
Guests
Testimony
Viewers
Above
Aura
Founder
Rituals
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Copy Quote
We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.
David Oyelowo / Actor
Activist
Civil Rights
June
Phenomenal
Radical
Son
Work Great Amazing
Butler
Civil
Forest
Incredibly
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Script
Copy Quote
There's a behind-the-scenes show that Oprah is doing that follows the final season of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I find behind-the-scenes stuff fascinating. Like, whenever I watch a DVD, I always watch the special features and listen to the commentary first, before I even watch the movie.
Brendan Robinson /
Movie
Commentary
Fascinating
Features
Special
Stuff
Before
Show
Doing
Watch
Final
Follows
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Season
Whenever
Copy Quote
Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.
Ava Duvernay / Filmmaker
Business
Capacity
Certain
Creative
Empowerment
Personhood
Spirituality
Talking
Television
Time Me Style
Time Business Me
Show
Interviewer
Cultivated
Model
Her
Incredible
Inner
Oprah
National
Oprah Winfrey
Role
Role Model
She
Copy Quote
I really don't know what happened in reference to 'The Butler.' Mr. Daniels and I had a conversation. I had the script, the email that goes along with it in reference to the character, read the script, loved it. Then I never heard from Mr. Daniels again, and the next I saw was that Oprah Winfrey is now playing the part.
Mo'nique /
Character
Conversation
Email
Heard
Next
Again
Mr
Butler
Loved
Read
Goes
Saw
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Reference
Script
Copy Quote
I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.
Deborah Joy Winans /
Acting
Charity
Contact
Couple
Months
Workshops
God Me Help
Asked
Interested
Later
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Reached
Role
Uncle
Copy Quote
We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.
Nate Berkus / Interior Designer
Being Afraid
Benefits
Feedback
Honest
Hurt
Mind
Polite
Pride
Speaking My Mind
Inside
Afraid
True
Back
Seen
Show
Bottled
Hold
Hurting
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Sense
Speaking
Whether
Copy Quote

Share This Page