Forest Whitaker Quotes
It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
Quotes to Explore
-
I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
-
There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
-
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
-
When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
-
Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
-
I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
-
Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
-
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
-
I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
-
Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
-
I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
-
I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
-
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
-
I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
-
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
-
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
-
But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
-
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
-
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
-
I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
-
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
-
There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
-
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
-
It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
