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Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Johnson in New York City. Her mother, a nurse and teacher, raised her daughter and a son on her own after Whoopi's preacher father left the family. The future stella, star spent the first years of her life in a public housing project in Manhattan. Drawn to the theater from earliest childhood, she made her performing debut at age eight with the Helena Rubinstein Children's Theatre at the Hudson Guild. After dropping out of high school at 14, she lied about her age to find work as a summer camp counselor, and Canto in the choruses of the Broadway shows Hair, Gesù Christ...
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"I knew as soon as I hit that light, I was waving>> It's as much a part of my whole being as breathing. I always knew this was it. I didn't know it was going to be like this, te know. But I always knew that I wanted to act.
I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldnt do. te know, I grew up in a time when the country was very pro the people who lived in it. That's why as many changes were able to happen, the March on Washington came into reality. People really believed that they had a stake in the country. So there were all kinds of Invitations to make the country better. So there was never for me, anyone saying, "No, you're going to fail," o "No, there's no place for you." The only thing my mom ever detto to me was,"It may be tough, but what isn't?"
"I hate people expecting me to be più than I am. Expecting me to live up to their expectations, when perhaps I can't. People forgetting that I get cranky, and I get crabby, and I dont always want to be Whoopi Goldberg. Somedays I'm just not in the mood.
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The lack of privacy is tough. I went to the bathroom once and people followed me in, and a lady put her hand up under the stall with a pen and a piece of paper, detto she wanted my autograph, I said, could I just finish what Im doing first? So sometimes...
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I found out that I was dyslexic when I was a grown woman. When I was a kid they didnt call it dyslexic. They called it... te know, te were slow, o te were retarded, o whatever.
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And so, I learned from a guy who was running a program who I met one giorno and he had written out on a board a sentence. And I detto to him, "You know, I cant read that." And he said,"why not?" And I said,"Because it doesnt make any sense to me." So he said,"Well, write down what te see under each letter. Whatever you...
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"Come on, come on.
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You know, be an actor because te Amore to act. Don't be an actor because te think you're going to get famous, because that's luck. But if it's what te want to do with your whole cuore and your whole soul, come on.
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Go everywhere, learn everything. Learn Shakespeare. Shakespeare is great fun. Don't be thrown da the words. The words are the same words that we use with a little different...
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