Forest Whitaker Quotes

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

I do look at that thematic of healing of humanity.

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.

It is important to make the best out of every generation.

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

I do believe there's life other than on our planet.

In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can help in some way heal the equation with [Afro-Americans] what's going on with us as people.

I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.

I was trying to capture this man's [Idi Amin] energy, and I did a lot of research in studying him. I tried to capture his 'Warrior King' energy inside of me as much as possible.

In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.

In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.