Forest Whitaker Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  People, Humanity, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Believe, Planets, Our Planet

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• 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.

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  Dream, Believe, Heart

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

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• I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you.

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  Character, Together, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Filming in Africa touched something really deep inside of me, really. It changed my matrix, my insides. My blood even feels kinda different. I don't know how to describe it. It's really kind of Eucharistic. I feel like I ate the place and now it's part of my system, part of my being. I'm not claiming that now I know what it's like to be African, but that now I have a deeper understanding of myself.

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  Blood, Understanding, Different

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

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  Years, Careers, Trying

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• I'm really excited that people are receiving my performance like this. It makes me feel good, because I've been working really hard. And this character [Idi Amin], I worked particularly hard on. But I don't want to get too caught up in it, because first of all, it could lead to a great disappointment. You never know what's going to happen.

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  Disappointment, Character, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I never acted in anything I've directed but I have produced a number of films and I have acted in some of the movies I've produced. Usually with first time filmmakers and pushing a move forward I have played a small role but never the lead.

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  Moving, Numbers, Roles

  "Forest Whitaker Interview: 'I Won't Play Crazy Again'". CineMovie Interview, cinemovie.tv. February 21, 2014.

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• 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.

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  Movie, Kids, Car

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

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

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  Summer, Pigs, Grandparent

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

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  Art, Writing, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Character, Thinking, Uganda

  Source: aalbc.com

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• As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.

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  Kings, Character, Opportunity

  Source: aalbc.com

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• 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.

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  Kings, Warrior, Men

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I hope that audiences respond really positively. I think it's a very intense, entertaining film [The Last King of Scotland], because you're brought in on a fun ride, and slowly you fall into it as James [actor James McAvoy's character, Dr. Nicholas Garrigan] does. Nicholas is like the audience. I think it's a good ride for people. And you learn something, as well.

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  Kings, Fun, Fall

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'

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  Hate, Hero, Uganda

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing things that I was trying to capture. Even if I had made this movie in South Africa, it would not have been the same, because it is so specific to Uganda.

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  Character, Uganda, Trying

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think the place fed me completely. Not only was I in Uganda, but I was around many people who had a personal relationship with Idi Amin. I was eating the food constantly. I was culturally hanging out with the people. You can't help but absorb the energy, and try to get inside the culture.

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  Thinking, Uganda, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think the biggest thing that motivates me when I'm choosing a part is a role that will help me continue to grow as a person and as an artist, and a role that will deepen my understanding of humanity, and my connection to it.

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  Artist, Thinking, Understanding

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

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• I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.

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  Brother, Order, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place of birth. It made it more organic inside of me, because it placed me in a position where my job was to understand and to become more African.

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  Jobs, Views, Colonialism

  Source: aalbc.com

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

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  Talking, Careers, People

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it means to be torn between cultures, what it means to be taken over by other cultures.

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  Taken, Mean, Other Cultures

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• There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.

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  Jobs, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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