Whoopi Goldberg wants to be a US ambassador for an overseas country

In conversation with The View producer Brian Teta on the show's Behind the Table podcast, Whoopi said: "I know this is the craziest thing ever, and it will never happen while (The View) is going on, but I still want to represent our country in another country. I've always wanted to be an ambassador."

The EGOT-winning actress continued: "I think there are terrific things about this country. I know we're not perfect, and there's a lot of stuff we've got to fix. It's what I've always said: There are great things about us and terrible things about us. We fix what we can, and sometimes we fix it really well, and sometimes we don't fix it well enough."

The Ghost star explained that she would like "to go to other countries" to clarify perceptions of the United States.

Whoopi said: "Especially as other countries are dealing with us these days and their reactions to us and how we are being seen by them. I want to bring it back to the people of the US, what the people are doing. They don't have any say in it."

Teta explained that Goldberg is "someone who loves this country and is a patriot" but who doesn't "love what's going on in the country all the time" after growing frustrated with the nation's politicians.

Whoopi said: "I do, and I love it because this is one of the few countries where you can say, 'I don't like that', and you don't get hamstrung, you don't get arrested on the streets.

"That's the America I grew up in. I've always had friends who are Republicans and I still do, but this idea that we can't disagree without it being life-threatening, that's not America."

Meanwhile, Whoopi previously expressed a desire to do more acting work as she feels that people "forget" that she was in the profession.

Speaking on The View last year after taking on the role of Miss Hannigan in the classic musical Annie, she said: "I haven't done this in a while and it was interesting for me to see how it worked but one of the things that people forget is that I am first and foremost, an actor.

"I was fortunate to get this gig when I needed it when I really needed it. Barbara Walters and Joy [Behar] put me in here. And it's been wonderful, but I am an actor.

"I missed it but I also realised that it's been a while since I've done it. I have to weigh it out. I don't like to leave them in the lurch and disappear and go stuff. But the older I'm getting, I wanna get back to that."