Oprah Winfrey

Three.

Oh, well, everything's bigger than myself.

My whole life is based on tapping into what is bigger than me.

I don't do anything without the guidance of a universal energy, spirit, God, divine presence, the forces of life.

Sidney Poitier and I used to get into all these.

If you were to ask me what regret I had,

One of my biggest regrets, which isn't a big thing, but every Sunday I used to talk to Sidney.

And Sidney Poitier was one of those people who, when I was a little girl, I was 10 years old, and he won the Academy Award.

And I remember thinking in that moment,

We called ourselves colored people then.

That's a colored man.

A colored man did that.

If he did that, I wonder what I could do.

And I grew up to meet that man.

And he was one of the few people on the planet who really, really, really got me.

So on my 42nd birthday...

Quincy Jones had a birthday party for me because my name was not allowed on the poster for The Color Purple at the time that I did The Color Purple because I wasn't famous enough to have my name on there.

And so Quincy had a party and he presented me with a poster with my name on it for my 42nd birthday, even though I did the movie when I was 30 years old.

And I walked down the stairs, and he knew how much I admired Sidney Poitier.

And I walked down the stairs, and there is Sidney Poitier.