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Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
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If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.
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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.'
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My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
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It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
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My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.
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If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?
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It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
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Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?
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We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
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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.
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That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
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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.
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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.
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