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Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?
Whoopi Goldberg
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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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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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Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
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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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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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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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If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'
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If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.
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Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.
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The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.
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