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
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.
The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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.
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.'
If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
We had some cute stuff to say, but you all don't care about that.
Sometimes I wish that I could run as fast as they do and do just 90 percent of the things I see those folks doing. I would have loved to have learned how to be a really good soccer player because I really like soccer.
There's no better place in the world for meat, conversation and good old-fashioned friendship.
Most people still have this idea that if you're doing what is considered a sport you don't get to be a girl. You get to be a tomboy, which is one of those words that I actually hate.
When you are kind to someone, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else and it will become like wildfire.
We thought in the first year we were going to be able to get everybody off the streets.
Not that you're not youthful. You're very youthful, John. But he looks like he's 18!
I told her her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks now feel like little nudges.