Early in her career, Whoopi Goldberg found work as a bricklayer and sheet-rock installer. And though she briefly worked as a stripper, Goldberg claimed never to have doffed her clothes. Why not? "People were screaming," Whoopi later recalled, "'Don't do it! Don't do it!'"

["Everyone gets crusty drawers," Whoopi wrote in her book Book, "unless we shower after every dump, or walk around with a swab to wipe around the rim."]