Forest Whitaker

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

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is…

— Forest Whitaker

In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.

— Forest Whitaker

In high school I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a…

— Forest Whitaker

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

— Forest Whitaker

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able…

— Forest Whitaker

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

— Forest Whitaker

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths. One of the themes is the overextension of credit, the nature of being…

— Forest Whitaker

Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place…

— Forest Whitaker

I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

— Forest Whitaker

Things are shifting; man is evolving in many different ways. The Internet has created a portal for people to connect with each…

— Forest Whitaker

I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do…

— Forest Whitaker

I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy,…

— Forest Whitaker

When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all…

— Forest Whitaker

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

I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the…

— Forest Whitaker

I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of…

— Forest Whitaker

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…

— Forest Whitaker

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you…

— Forest Whitaker

Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

— Forest Whitaker

Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save…

— Forest Whitaker

I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one…

— Forest Whitaker

I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my…

— Forest Whitaker

On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it…

— Forest Whitaker

On the very last day of shooting [of The Last King of Scotlang], I remember wanting to get the [Idi Amin] character…

— Forest Whitaker