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An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Whoopi Goldberg

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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.
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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
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Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE
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There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
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I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.
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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.
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It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention
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I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.
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I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.
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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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I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, Get the government out of my backyard, the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.
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Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
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You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
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Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
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Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?
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It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.
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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.
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