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" College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way. "
Forest Whitaker
Singing
Acting
College
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" When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated. "
Forest Whitaker
Important
Child
Focus
" Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles. "
Forest Whitaker
Doors
Line
Artists
" You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God. "
Forest Whitaker
Work
God
Humanity
" I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives. "
Forest Whitaker
Values
Think
Parents
" My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned. "
Forest Whitaker
Life
Home
Amazing
" 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
Time
Enough
Career
" I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be. "
Forest Whitaker
Summer
World
River
" Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul. "
Forest Whitaker
Cinema
Arts
Story
" I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to. "
Forest Whitaker
Stand
Stand Up
I Believe
" Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths. "
Forest Whitaker
Science Fiction
Always
Good
" I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do. "
Forest Whitaker
Know
Acting
Destiny
" I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go. "
Forest Whitaker
Together
Family
People
" I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy. "
Forest Whitaker
Live
Happy
Time
" In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal. "
Forest Whitaker
Identity
She
You
" I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends. "
Forest Whitaker
Family
Live
Wife
" While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance. "
Forest Whitaker
World
Tomorrow
Together
" 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 teacher. That's just the way it is in my family. "
Forest Whitaker
Texas
Teacher
Mother
" I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying. "
Forest Whitaker
Care
Think
People
" There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you. "
Forest Whitaker
Energy
Chemistry
Look
" It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings. "
Forest Whitaker
Know
Journey
Black
" On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point. "
Forest Whitaker
Spiritual
Work
Think
" 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 the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime. "
Forest Whitaker
Role
Bird
Wait
" I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time. "
Forest Whitaker
Time
Long
Know
" My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me. "
Forest Whitaker
Know
Me
People
" I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other. "
Forest Whitaker
Other
Like
Go
" It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it. "
Forest Whitaker
Evil
Explain
Just
" It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes. "
Forest Whitaker
Home
Three
Two
" I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction. "
Forest Whitaker
Star
Science
Science Fiction
" Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person. "
Forest Whitaker
Actor
Always
Person
" Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them. "
Forest Whitaker
Stereotypes
Walk
Exist