Forest Whitaker Quotes
Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
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I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.
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I hate political correctness.
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Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
