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
When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on...
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.
Did you know that we are the only people in the United States who have to have their voting rights okayed every couple of years?
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 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.
. . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone.