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I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

source: - Interview with Baird Jones in New York Post, December 11, 1999.

quote i try to be like a forest revitalizing and constantly growing forest whitaker Quotes

I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Character, Mirrors, Climbing, Excuse You, Climbing Up

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

source: - "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

Topics: Stereotype, Walks

I like to play complex characters and the duality, and trying to reach for the light, it's more interesting really. I've gotten to play so many types of guys and I just try to find the humanity in each one of them the best I can.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Character, Light, Play, Complex Characters, Type Of Guy

There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.

Topics: Jobs, Character, Opportunity, Different Life

I do look at that thematic of healing of humanity.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Healing, Humanity, Looks, Thematic

In every project, I always look for the depth of humanity inside of it. I'm just trying to say if we can help in some way heal the equation with [Afro-Americans] what's going on with us as people.

Topics: People, Humanity, Trying, Afros

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Independent, Unique, Film, Unique Experiences, Independent Film

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Character, Stay True, Projects

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

source: - Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Topics: Trying, Different, Push Yourself, Different Things

It is important to make the best out of every generation.

Topics: Important, Generations, Aging

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.

Topics: Art, Writing, Rocks

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

source: - Oscar Acceptance Address for Best Actor in a Leading Role, delivered 25 February 2007, Hollywood, CA

Topics: God, Believe, Next, Believe In Us, Next Lifetime

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

Topics: Years, Careers, Trying

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

source: - "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". EURWeb Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

Topics: Moving, Character, Past, Ethnic Background

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

Topics: Summer, Pigs, Grandparent, Plowing

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

Topics: Movie, Kids, Car, Saw Movie

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

Topics: Dream, Believe, Heart, East Texas

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

Topics: Character, Thinking, People, Portraying

I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Men, Play, Connections, Despicable, Kernel

We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.

Topics: Eye, Needs

I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you.

Topics: Character, Together, Energy

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

Topics: Empowering, Community, Wealth, True Wealth

The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!

Topics: Daughter, Dad, Stupid, Goofing Around

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

Topics: Teacher, Art, Teaching

There are places where life could exist. And we've already discovered that there's been life on certain planets that we've explored. That may just be algae or whatever, but life on Earth began a certain way, too.

source: - Source: www.theskanner.com

Topics: Algae, Earth, May

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.

source: - "Forest Whitaker shares wit, wisdom in discussing latest film". Interview with Kam Williams, www.baystatebanner.com. February 27, 2014.

Topics: Character, Human Condition, Grows

Since Idi Amin was from the Sudanese section in the north of Uganda, he was darker skinned. He had more of a blue undertone. So, we did change the coloring of my skin to be closer to his. But otherwise, there were no transformations besides acting.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Uganda, Blue, Skins

I found the people to be very kind and generous. It was unique because the crew was mainly Ugandan [filming The Last King of Scotland]. They had never done a film before. So, they were learning the process of making films, but at the same time they were also helping with the authenticity of the film.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Kings, Unique, Scotland

I was pretty much consumed by this character. Even when I was off, I was continually searching to find something else new about [Idi] Amin, and to embed myself deeper into the culture to the point that, in the end, I was so entrenched that I could tell what tribe someone was from just by looking at them.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Character, Culture, Tribes

I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Jobs, Joy, Gone

On the very last day of shooting [of The Last King of Scotlang], I remember wanting to get the [Idi Amin] character out of me right away, as much as I could. You literally take a bath to wash him off you. Luckily, I went into another part not so long afterwards, so I was kind of able to push it away a little bit. But speech patterns, and little sounds, particularly colloquial things, like the way you ask questions or might respond, were sticking with me, probably because I'd worked so hard to make it a part of my everyday way of expressing myself.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Kings, Character, Long

Things are shifting; man is evolving in many different ways. The Internet has created a portal for people to connect with each other in a way they never could have before. When it comes to African-American or black films, it's different because there is a model that you can actually look at, an equation that shows that these films earn money.

source: - Source: deadline.com

Topics: Men, People, African American

Filming in Africa touched something really deep inside of me, really. It changed my matrix, my insides. My blood even feels kinda different. I don't know how to describe it. It's really kind of Eucharistic. I feel like I ate the place and now it's part of my system, part of my being. I'm not claiming that now I know what it's like to be African, but that now I have a deeper understanding of myself.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Blood, Understanding, Different, Really Deep, Deeper Understanding

I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Cassettes

I'm really excited that people are receiving my performance like this. It makes me feel good, because I've been working really hard. And this character [Idi Amin], I worked particularly hard on. But I don't want to get too caught up in it, because first of all, it could lead to a great disappointment. You never know what's going to happen.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Working Really Hard

As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: African Continent

I never acted in anything I've directed but I have produced a number of films and I have acted in some of the movies I've produced. Usually with first time filmmakers and pushing a move forward I have played a small role but never the lead.

source: - "Forest Whitaker Interview: 'I Won't Play Crazy Again'". CineMovie Interview, cinemovie.tv. February 21, 2014.

Topics: Small Roles

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