Forest Whitaker Quotes

It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

Forest Whitaker

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• Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Heart
  • Brain

• Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Fun
  • Focus

• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Thought

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Know
  • Constitution

• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Experience
  • Fight

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Great
  • Funny

• Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Real
  • Golf

• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • People
  • Responsibility

• When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Me
  • Expectations

• When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Keep

• When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Live
  • Questions

• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Important
  • Family
  • Dad

• Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Language

• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Fought
  • Small Things

• One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Time
  • Age

• Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Balance

• When I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Mind
  • American

• It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Important
  • Country