Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg
Caryn Elaine Johnson, known professionally by her stage name, Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. She was the second black woman in the history of the Academy Awards to win an acting Oscar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth13 November 1955
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'
Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people [in East Berlin] just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.
If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.
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....
I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.
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.
I say if you're worried, vote smart. Vote smart.