American - Actress | November 13, 1955 -
I'm as American as Chevrolet.
Whoopi Goldberg
American
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
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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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Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.
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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.
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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 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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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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