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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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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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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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset, I have to say that truth is what it is. We cannot change it, we cannot transform it. We cannot compromise with it. It is what it is, it has been what it has been, and it will be what it has been. So it doesn't change. What is needed is that we have to change. So, what is the truth? Truth is that you are not this body, this mind; you are not these emotions, intellect or conditionings. Nor you are ego. So what are you ? You are the pure Spirit.
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I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
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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.
