Forest Whitaker Quotes
I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
Quotes to Explore
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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I have lived a carnal life.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.
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I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
