Top 100 Whitaker Quotes
#1. I'm also working on another independent film called Roxanne, Roxanne, about Roxanne Shante, who was one of the first African American battle rappers from Brooklyn. It is produced by Forest Whitaker and Pharrell [williams], so I'm really in great hands.
Nia Long
#2. We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.
David Oyelowo
#3. Relax Guild Boss. You have my word of honor that I won't tell a soul about your connection to Watson Whitaker." she winked. "Frankly,though, I doubt if the story would do you any real damage if it did get out. Might even give you a boost in the popularity ratings back home. People love legends.
Jayne Castle
#4. Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat.
Neil Gaiman
#5. My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
Walton Goggins
#6. Life is filled with challenges to be accomplished one by one
But, when you feel good about yourself
There's no hurdle you can't overcome!
Annette Whitaker-Moss
#7. As a practice exercise, I'd usually just wear blindfolds around the house to allow my other senses to take me wherever I would like to go.
Denzel Whitaker
#8. Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
Whitaker Chambers
#9. Strange isn't it, people spend their time making nice things and other people come along and brake them.
David Whitaker
#10. Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but even higher expectations for themselves.
Todd Whitaker
#11. Deep down Kelly, I think you want me here. I think you're too damn scared to admit you need me. And I think I'm the only one who will understand the truth.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#12. We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.
Forest Whitaker
#13. Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
Forest Whitaker
#14. Somedays I think I'm a rebel in my own mind but most of the times I'm a low-key, follow the rules type of guy.
Denzel Whitaker
#15. I could tell your father stories about the men in the Prince's Court.
Emily Whitaker
#16. The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.
Denzel Whitaker
#17. Well, I did tell you I couldn't give you a thing. Maybe you've just realised that Alistair can give the god damn world, and the pleasure of kissing his shiny slap-head every day!
LeeAnn Whitaker
#18. My friends," he began, and one thumb securely hooked itself in his waistcoat pocket while his other hand hung at his side ready for a battery of theatrical gestures.
David Whitaker
#19. The irony of this is that while believers and non-believers are on opposite sides where religious ideas are concerned they may also find themselves on the same side in the struggle for freedom of belief.
Brian Whitaker
#20. Their marriage was cold and tedious. Formal and unloving. Stale even. She never had any regrets like this with Jack. With Jack, a rainy day would be cheerful.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#21. I gaze at his pale skin as this energy hits me. My jaw is clamped tight as my eyes squeeze out the pain. I've felt this before. It's like he's telling me to let him go.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#22. I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.
Forest Whitaker
#23. If Midnight's Children is India's One Hundred Years of Solitude, then A Suitable Boy must be its War and Peace.
Whitaker
#24. And then-
The lights are on.My first reaction is the lack of one. I'm too stunned. One second later, though, I hit the deck, pulling at the blankets below me and shielding my eyes.
Alecia Whitaker
#25. When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.
Denzel Whitaker
#26. In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176)
Robert Whitaker
#29. If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.
Carl Whitaker
#30. ...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)
Robert Whitaker
#31. The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple of centuries or more ago.
Brian Whitaker
#32. Something has gotten into me; something I didn't want. The moment my skin touched hers, it overwhelmed me with desires of the deepest kind. It's crawled beneath my flesh, and my every pore is infected by her. An addiction that is as frustrating as this illness.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#34. My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.
Sue Whitaker
#35. You can fight all you want beautiful. You got involved with the wrong kind of people; evil you should have stayed clear from.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#36. If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient? (p. 30)
Robert Whitaker
#37. His green-flecked brown eyes twinkle, and we laugh together, easy and light. He opens the door for me, and I say goodbye, floating over to where my family waits in our Winnebago. And I can't tell you if my feet actually touch the ground, because at this very moment, this Bird, well, she flies.
Alecia Whitaker
#39. I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.
Romulus Whitaker
#40. When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.
Carl Whitaker
#41. I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone
Sue Whitaker
#42. There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.
Brian Whitaker
#44. He could feel her breath on his chest. She looked into his eyes.
Emily Whitaker
#45. I wait for my dad to walk away before pulling back the covers and getting out of bed. Not exactly a Hallmark father-daughter moment.
Alecia Whitaker
#46. Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.
Lou Whitaker
#47. I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.
Forest Whitaker
#48. Terry," Jennelle waved a hand in front of her monitor, disrupting Terry's view, "he has a tattoo on his back! I know this because his shirt is untucked and starting to ride up. This means skin, hun.
Kate Whitaker
#49. I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!
Denzel Whitaker
#50. I think the place fed me completely. Not only was I in Uganda, but I was around many people who had a personal relationship with Idi Amin. I was eating the food constantly. I was culturally hanging out with the people. You can't help but absorb the energy, and try to get inside the culture.
Forest Whitaker
#51. I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you.
Forest Whitaker
#52. When you think you need love and approval from others to feel validated, it means you are in need of love and approval from the most important person of all: you!
Carol Whitaker
#53. Some people live life asking for forgiveness instead of permission.
Alecia Whitaker
#54. The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.
Denzel Whitaker
#55. There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families
Carl Whitaker
#56. If you start to feel old - start working with young people.
John Whitaker
#57. Mother Maybelle, have mercy, we've just been discovered.
Alecia Whitaker
#58. Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them. (207)
Robert Whitaker
#59. If Josh could see me having to empty out his piss, and nurse him this way, he'd beg me to let him go.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#60. I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.
Forest Whitaker
#61. I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change people's lives. It's so cerebral, you never know who you can affect out there.
Denzel Whitaker
#62. In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by economics and the experience of looking at art becomes a form of consumption.
Amy Whitaker
#63. And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.
Forest Whitaker
#64. Every muscle in her body stiffened at his touch as he studied her cheek. She was expecting another blow; it was quite possible. He had always been unpredictable that way. His blue eyes stared down at her, then thankfully he released her chin.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#65. I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands.
Brian Whitaker
#66. Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.
Romulus Whitaker
#67. Kelly, let me do what I can to make this easy for you."
"What the hell are you doing, hmm? Your good guy bad guy act, doesn't wash with me.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#69. What are you saying, Benvolio? You would like to speak to my father about my hand in marriage?
Emily Whitaker
#70. I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.
Forest Whitaker
#72. The more time she spent with Tristen, the deeper she was sinking into his darkness. She was drowning in his wild theories, barely treading the water.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#73. That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.
Denzel Whitaker
#74. I would want to have Spider-Man's web slinging abilities. I always thought it'd be cool to swing around the city jumping off of buildings and free diving.
Denzel Whitaker
#75. I have a theory that theories are destructive.
Carl Whitaker
#76. I like to play complex characters and the duality, and trying to reach for the light, it's more interesting really. I've gotten to play so many types of guys and I just try to find the humanity in each one of them the best I can.
Forest Whitaker
#77. Since Idi Amin was from the Sudanese section in the north of Uganda, he was darker skinned. He had more of a blue undertone. So, we did change the coloring of my skin to be closer to his. But otherwise, there were no transformations besides acting.
Forest Whitaker
#78. There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.
Forest Whitaker
#79. Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.
Forest Whitaker
#80. The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right.
Denzel Whitaker
#81. You can't change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.
Shamarion Whitaker
#82. America is losing faith in modern medicine, and for good reason.
Julian Whitaker
#83. Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.
Denzel Whitaker
#84. Fortunately, both my parents, especially my mom, have guided me, and been amazing at handling my career and my finances. They taught me not to buy what I don't need, when I'm not working that much.
Denzel Whitaker
#85. They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number
on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.
Lou Whitaker
#86. There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'
Forest Whitaker
#87. I thought doctors were supposed to make you better not worse!
Sue Whitaker
#88. I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.
Forest Whitaker
#89. Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it means to be torn between cultures, what it means to be taken over by other cultures.
Forest Whitaker
#90. 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 of birth. It made it more organic inside of me, because it placed me in a position where my job was to understand and to become more African.
Forest Whitaker
#91. Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the "delusion of fusion."
Carl Whitaker
#92. Foolish mistakes don't make you dumb. Show your intelligence by changing your outcome.
Annette Whitaker-Moss
#94. I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.
Denzel Whitaker
#95. I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.
Forest Whitaker
#96. My mother spoke to me this morning, she told me that my father is beginning to think of suitors for me to marry.
Emily Whitaker
#97. Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.
Carl Whitaker
#98. It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
Forest Whitaker
#99. I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
Forest Whitaker
#100. It makes sense that anybody with religious beliefs would pray that the Lord would watch over them and protect them as their sleeping. We just want to send that little message out to the Lord, "Take care of us."
Denzel Whitaker
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