“Sometimes you just want to go and have some pasta,” said Goldberg, who famously doesn’t want anyone in her house.

Whoopi Goldberg is still fine being single: ‘I don’t give a f--- what you want’

"Sometimes you just want to go and have some pasta," said Goldberg, who famously doesn't want anyone in her house.

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Legendary actress Whoopi Goldberg, who once famously said she isn't a fan of marriage because she doesn't want "want somebody in my house," has given another update on her love life.

"I don’t give a f--- what you want," the 70-year-old EGOT winner told *Interview* magazine, as part of a larger answer in a new wide-ranging conversation with Tony-nominated playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who inquired about the Hollywood legend's signature penchant for single life.

"It teaches you several things. Being lonely and being alone are two different things," Goldberg said in response to the *Slave Play* writer's observations about substantial relationships that can become richer as a result of solo living.

Whoopi Goldberg with Ted Danson in 1993.

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Goldberg elaborated, telling Harris, "I don’t necessarily get lonely, because there’s enough people around who don’t let me. But most people are not comfortable being alone because we’ve been taught that there’s something wrong with you if you’re not a pair, that being singular, eating singular, is a bad thing," she said.

"Sometimes you don’t want to eat with other people. Sometimes you just want to go and have some pasta," the *Ghost* star added. "You don’t want to say, 'Do you want red wine or white wine?' I don’t give a f--- what you want."

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The trailblazing *Color Purple* and *Sister Act* performer has had several publicized relationships in the past, including with actors Ted Danson and Frank Langella.

She's also been married three times, and has regularly expressed her views against marriage — for her — in the past.

"I think I’m not that interested. I’m much happier on my own. I can spend as much time with somebody as I want to spend, but I’m not looking to be with somebody forever or live with someone. I don’t want somebody in my house," she told the *New York Times* in 2016, adding, "I’m the round peg, and marriage is the square hole. You can’t have a square hole, can you?"

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Elsewhere in the *Interview* conversation, Goldberg said she's instead focused on the needs of her family, and enriching those bonds later in life.

"I’m not good at relationships because you have to think about other people, and I have enough to think about with my daughter and her husband and my grandkids and my great-grandkids and all the people at work," she said.

Outside of her personal life, Goldberg has remained a professional powerhouse in her career. She makes daily headlines as a cohost on *The View*, and has steadily acted in both film and TV projects while maintaining the talk show gig, including parts in movies like *Ezra* and a cameo in the 2023 *Color Purple* remake, as well as parts in series like *Harlem*, *The Stand*, and the upcoming *Anansi Boys*.

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