Forest Whitaker Quotes

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

  Forest Whitaker

  Growth, Trying, Growing

  Interview with Baird Jones in New York Post, December 11, 1999.

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• 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.

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  Eye, Needs, Fronts

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• 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.

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  Empowering, Community, Wealth

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

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  Stereotype, Walks

  "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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

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  Important, Generations, Aging

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• 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.

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  Trying, Different, Push Yourself

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

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  Teacher, Art, Teaching

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• 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.

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  God, Believe, Next

  Oscar Acceptance Address for Best Actor in a Leading Role, delivered 25 February 2007, Hollywood, CA

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

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  Character, Stay True, Projects

  Source: collider.com

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• In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

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  Moving, Character, Past

  "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". EURWeb Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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

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  Character, Thinking, People

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• There are places where life could exist. And we've already discovered that there's been life on certain planets that we've explored. That may just be algae or whatever, but life on Earth began a certain way, too.

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  Algae, Earth, May

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• 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.

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  Men, Play, Connections

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Character, Human Condition, Grows

  "Forest Whitaker shares wit, wisdom in discussing latest film". Interview with Kam Williams, www.baystatebanner.com. February 27, 2014.

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• Since Idi Amin was from the Sudanese section in the north of Uganda, he was darker skinned. He had more of a blue undertone. So, we did change the coloring of my skin to be closer to his. But otherwise, there were no transformations besides acting.

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  Uganda, Blue, Skins

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.

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  Character, Excuse You, Mirrors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I found the people to be very kind and generous. It was unique because the crew was mainly Ugandan [filming The Last King of Scotland]. They had never done a film before. So, they were learning the process of making films, but at the same time they were also helping with the authenticity of the film.

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  Kings, Unique, Scotland

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I do look at that thematic of healing of humanity.

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  Healing, Humanity, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I was pretty much consumed by this character. Even when I was off, I was continually searching to find something else new about [Idi] Amin, and to embed myself deeper into the culture to the point that, in the end, I was so entrenched that I could tell what tribe someone was from just by looking at them.

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  Character, Culture, Tribes

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!

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  Daughter, Dad, Stupid

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Joy, Gone

  Source: aalbc.com

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• On the very last day of shooting [of The Last King of Scotlang], I remember wanting to get the [Idi Amin] character out of me right away, as much as I could. You literally take a bath to wash him off you. Luckily, I went into another part not so long afterwards, so I was kind of able to push it away a little bit. But speech patterns, and little sounds, particularly colloquial things, like the way you ask questions or might respond, were sticking with me, probably because I'd worked so hard to make it a part of my everyday way of expressing myself.

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  Kings, Character, Long

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Things are shifting; man is evolving in many different ways. The Internet has created a portal for people to connect with each other in a way they never could have before. When it comes to African-American or black films, it's different because there is a model that you can actually look at, an equation that shows that these films earn money.

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  Men, People, African American

  Source: deadline.com

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• I like to play complex characters and the duality, and trying to reach for the light, it's more interesting really. I've gotten to play so many types of guys and I just try to find the humanity in each one of them the best I can.

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  Character, Light, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

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  Independent, Unique, Film

  Source: collider.com

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