I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

- Forest Whitaker

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowe…

- Forest Whitaker

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 di…

- Forest Whitaker

I found the people to be very kind and generous. It was unique because the crew was mainly Ugandan [filming The Last King of Scotland]. They had neve…

- Forest Whitaker

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

- Forest Whitaker

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…

- Forest Whitaker

It is important to make the best out of every generation.

- Forest Whitaker

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

- Forest Whitaker

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