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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Whoopi Goldberg
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 13
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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
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Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
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I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.
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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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I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?
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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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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?
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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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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
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An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
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I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.
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I have a production company, and we work with reality TV producers 44 Blue. They asked if we'd like to get involved. When they explained that it was the first transgender modeling agency, we said, Yeah, of course!
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Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.
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I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.
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There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.
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If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?
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If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
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We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model] we know a lot about it.
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I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.
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Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.
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