I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy.… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways,… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
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… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
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… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
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… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it,… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone. — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know?… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
If I were to mark three, I'd mark Bird, because I grew immensely as an artist, I learned a lot, and also, I think,… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
