Forest Whitaker Quotes

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.