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
[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.
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?
Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?
Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean - that was the reason the law came into effect.
If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.
I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.
(Walker) told black women that they don't have to be less than they are capable of being. I try to uphold that standard.
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.
When you are kind to someone, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else and it will become like wildfire.