Forest Whitaker Quotes

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

I have been in this industry for over a decade, and I still don't consider myself a movie star.

I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

I really don't see myself as a star.

This may sound strange, but I did not join the film industry to be a star and be successful.

I want to be tagged as an actor and not as a star.

I never wanted to be famous. The characters I do are famous, and that's fine for me.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.