Character Quote by Forest Whitaker Download Open image “I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.” — Forest Whitaker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Projects Stay true Stills
I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene.… — Tye Sheridan Copy Share Image
It's always about the project itself than a character for me. It's all experiential. — Shea Whigham Copy Share Image
You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself. — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character. — Hugo Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the whole play… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character. — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have. — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway. — Billy Bob Thornton 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
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image