Forest Whitaker Quotes

In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

Forest Whitaker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TeacherSchoolCollegeMeVoice

The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.

John Boyega

PeopleAttackJustBlockPhysical

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

Robert Lopez

FeelWriteSeenI Feel LikeOnly

If you're beautiful within, a person can fall in love with your spirit.

Angie Stone

LoveBeautifulYouFallPersonYour

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Toru Takemitsu

MusicEmotionsHumanNaturalNotes

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

Tom Clancy

LookTrainEverythingPhotograph

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Louis Farrakhan

GoodHopeHumbleManPeopleBetter

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.

Drew Carey

FunnyMeWinComedyYouSee

I don't really like to put stuff in a box as far as genre-specific.

Chord Overstreet

BoxFarLikeStuffReallyPut

Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

Claire Cameron

HeartPeopleMindStrongYouBody

Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.

Princess Eugenie of York

BestWorldFriendsCallOurselves

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I AmChildNightYesterdayBlackness

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

Ricky Martin

MeArtistEmotionsPersonNever

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