Forest Whitaker Quotes

I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.

Forest Whitaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1961

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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Andre Weil

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I just want to serve Colombia.

Alvaro Uribe

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As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Enjoying myself is something very important for me because that is why I play when all is said and done. And it also allows me to have an engine.

Riyad Mahrez

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Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.

Ron Paul

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If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

Ron White

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Everything I did in P.E. was just awful. Archery was just something that we did as a father/daughter activity, and it just kind of grew out of that, really.

Miranda Leek

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Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.

Debra Winger

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For 'Chungking Express,' the way we shot the film was all handheld and with all this existing light, and that became very popular. Everybody thought it was cool.

Wong Kar-wai

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I hope that a lot of my mother's talents are shown in a lot of the work that I do.

Prince Harry

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I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

Phil McGraw

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The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

Pope Benedict XVI

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