Whoopi Goldberg vs. Bill Skarsgård
Read 11 entries attributed to Whoopi Goldberg alongside 3 attributed to Bill Skarsgård. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 11 entries attributed to Whoopi Goldberg alongside 3 attributed to Bill Skarsgård. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
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Attributed to Whoopi Goldberg, entry #7106: "But I want very much to be accepted as a good actor, and I have to admit this. Just before the first screenings of The Color Purple, I had some doubts about my name. Steven had to…"
Attributed to Bill Skarsgård, entry #5489: "I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate. I think you have to feel guilty about it. I t…"
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Whoopi Goldberg
1955
Caryn Elaine Johnson, known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is one of few people to receive an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Tony Award, collectively known as the EGOT. In 2001, she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
"But I want very much to be accepted as a good actor, and I have to admit this. Just before the first screenings of The Color Purple, I had some doubts about …"
#life"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it."
#art"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
#technology"The name was a fluke. A joke. It started when I was doing A Christmas Carol in San Diego. We'd sit backstage and talk about names we'd never give our childre…"
#family"Thanks! Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted this! You don't know...my brother sitting there, he says "Thank God we don't have to listen to anymore... you…"
#knowledge"Actresses can only play women. I'm an actor, I can play anything."
#gender"I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape."
#knowledge"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, an…"
#knowledge"I'm an actor. That's what I do. I'm not a stand-up comic. I do characters. I'm very good. I'll be better. But right now I'm a very good actor."
#ethics"Well, 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…"
#time"For many, many, many years, there were not Jews in Israel. Okay?"
#timeBill Skarsgård
1990
Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård is a Swedish actor, model, producer, and director. He is best known for portraying Pennywise in the horror films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) and the television series It: Welcome to Derry (2025–present) and Count Orlok in Nosferatu (2024). Skarsgård's roles as monsters and other non-human characters have led him to be described as a creature actor by media sources.
"I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate. I think you have to fee…"
#mind"You almost create this infinite universe for the character that you’re playing and then you’re compromising it into the story that you’re doing. Whatever cha…"
#hope"I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to…"
#philosophy