Forest Whitaker Quotes

Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

Forest Whitaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceWalkNew ThingsPeople

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

Jim Woodring

NatureDreamsFishMeaningHoodYou

The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

EverythingWordWrittenWritten Word

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Amanda Seyfried

WantPersonalNeverPrettySure

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Robert Foster Bennett

SuccessHealthControlMental Health

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.

Michael Pollan

PowerPlantEnjoyEasyLaborForget

Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.

Bob Seger

TimeMondayGarbageOutHereMost

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

Alma Gluck

DaySoulAmericanEvery DayOut

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

LifeLoveYouBackLove LifeWill

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

Sylvia Earle

SituationNowMoreWildlifePlanet

Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.

Peter Diamandis

TechnologyOpportunityWorldProblems

In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

Paul Weyrich

HomeChildrenPastChurchValues

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

Sebastian Vettel

PowerExperienceMeTeamChanceBMW

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