Forest Whitaker Quotes
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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I have a great office.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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We should all love animals.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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You can't argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it's two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic. I wasn't crazy about the movie. But you know what? I'm gonna shut up, because the people have spoken. End of story!
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A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'
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On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.
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Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.
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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.
