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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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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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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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.
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I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.
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We feel like we're under no pressure because we don't believe there will be anyone else out there.
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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.
