Oprah Quotes

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.
Glenn Beck

Life, Successful, Same

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.
Janice Dickinson

Become, White, Aiming

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.
Glenn Beck

Yourself, True, Sense

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.
Mindy Kaling

Fashion, Wants, Line

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
Phil McGraw

Learned, Tremendous, Amount

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!
Mary J. Blige

Music, Speak, Means

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

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
Jane Pauley

Success, Successful, True

I got the famous Oprah hug!
Taylor Lautner

Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.
Patti Stanger

Time, Women, Men

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
Madonna Ciccone

Live, Fact, Lives

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.
John Hodgman

Rather, Earth, Plan

Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.
Criss Angel

Money, Heart, Father

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.
Phil Donahue

Success, Special, She

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
Andrew Shue

Family, Teacher, Show

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.
Rosie O'Donnell

Aspiration, Height, Recognizes

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.
David Fincher

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

Work, Great, Amazing

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.
Tina Fey

Time, Best, Friend

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
Victoria Principal

Her, Few, Anyone

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?
Kevin Spacey

Tell, Cry, Secrets

I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,' so I tried out. One thing led to another and I appeared on 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show' and 'Oprah.'
JoJo

Through, Another, Kids

I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.
Gayle King

Her, Admit, Marry

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.
Gayle King

Work, Time, Good

All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
Gayle King

Good, Book, She

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

Good, Different, Show

I know that Oprah and I mean a lot to each other... I know at all times I have somebody that I can count on always.
Gayle King

Mean, Times, Somebody

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.
Gayle King

Work, Around, Whatever

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.
Genevieve Gorder

Cool, Before, She

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
Genevieve Gorder

Found, Curiosity, Intense

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