Forest Whitaker movie quotes

“Taking an enemy on the battlefield is like a hawk taking a bird. Even though it enters into the midst of a thousand of them, it gives no attention to any bird than the one it first marked.”
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

From a Marine in Da Nang: "Captain Hauk sucks the sweat off of a dead man's balls”. I have no idea what that means, sir, but it seems very negative to me.

Forest Whitaker - Edward Garlick

“I love to remember. But its hard to remember. Because remembering won’t bring back those days.”
Forest Whitaker - Jeronicus

“Brilliance beckons! Genius awaits!”
Forest Whitaker - Jeronicus

“- Louise Banks: The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us. Do you understand what that means?
- Colonel Weber: So we can learn heptapod. If we survive.
- Louise Banks: If you learn it, when you really learn it, you begin to perceive time the way that they do. So you can see what's to come. But time, it isn't the same for them. It's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeremy Renner - Louise Banks
Forest Whitaker - Colonel Weber

My father left me when I was a child. The British Army became my home. They took me as a cleaner, in the kitchens, cleaning pots. They used to beat me. "Beat this wall, Amin". "Dig the latreen, Amin". And now, here I am. The President of Uganda. And who put me here, huh? It was the British.
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about doing it in a long, roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash...” (continue)(continue reading)
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

“I wish I could put my kid in a place like this. Not that I didn't try. Just sometimes things they don't work out the way you want them to. Wasn't supposed to be like this. You weren't supposed to be here.”

Forest Whitaker - Burnham

“- Bryan Mills: What's your first priority here, Inspector?
- Franck Dotzler: To arrest St. John and charge him with your ex-wife's murder.
- Bryan Mills: My first priority is my daughter.”
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills
Forest Whitaker - Franck Dotzler

“- Louise Banks: If all I ever gave you was a hammer...
- Colonel Weber: Everything's a nail...”
Amy Adams - Louise Banks
Forest Whitaker - Colonel Weber

“Remember what happened to the Aborigines. A more advanced race nearly wiped 'em out.”
Forest Whitaker - Colonel Weber

- Ian Donnelly: Priority one: What do they want and where are they from? And beyond that, how did they get here? Are they capable of faster-than-light travel? I've prepared a list of questions to go over, starting with a series of "handshake" binary sequences...
- Louise Banks: How about we just talk to them before we start throwing math... (continue)(continue reading)

Jeremy Renner - Ian Donnelly
Amy Adams - Louise Banks
Forest Whitaker - Colonel Weber

“- Ghost Dog: I don't understand him. I don't speak French, only English. I never understand a word he says.
- Pearline: And that's your best friend?
- Ghost Dog: Yeah.”
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog
Forest Whitaker - Pearline

“I was almost killed. A truck's bumper was this far from my nose. My whole life passed before my eyes... and it wasn't even interesting to me.”
Forest Whitaker - Edward Garlick

“- Jyn Erso: The last time I saw you, you gave me a knife and a loaded blaster and told me to wait in a bunker 'till daylight.
- Saw Gerrera: I knew you were safe.
- Jyn Erso: You left me behind.”
Felicity Jones - Jyn Erso
Forest Whitaker - Saw Gerrera

“- Saw Gerrera: You can stand to see the Imperial flag reign across the galaxy?
- Jyn Erso: It's not a problem if you don't look up.”
Forest Whitaker - Saw Gerrera
Felicity Jones - Jyn Erso

“God must have some kind of plan to teach me some kind of lesson. I just can't figure out what it is.”
Forest Whitaker - Thick Willis

“- Tuck Willis: You think you can beat Magic?
- Billy Hope: I can't beat him, not without you. I'm going to fight again. I'm going to get my kid back.
- Tuck Willis: You can control your destiny.”
Forest Whitaker - Thick Willis
Jake Gyllenhaal - Billy Hope

These kids coming up in here I'm telling them a bunch of stuff this bullshit. "It's gonna be alright". You can control your destiny. You could control this you could control that". You can't control shit.
Forest Whitaker - Thick Willis

“I don't think God meant for people to not have a family.”
Forest Whitaker - Cecil Gaines

“- Idi Amin: You dare try to poison me? After everything I gave you? I am Idi Amin! President-for-life and ruler of Uganda. I am the father of Africa.
- Nicholas Garrigan: You're a child. You have the mind and ego of an angry, spoiled, uneducated child. And that's what makes you so fucking scary.”
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“Malcolm, Jib and Diggy used to be in the school marching band, but quit in protest after refusing to play the Harlem Shake.”
Forest Whitaker - Narrator

“- Victoria Roth, Ph.D.: Are you still having problems with the people at work?
- Dan Smithson, Empath: They put the finger on me, saying I'm the weird one. I'm the strange one. Why? Because I have feelings? That I feel?”
Shirley Prestia - Victoria Roth, Ph.D.
Forest Whitaker - Dan Smithson

“I'm sick of this shit. It's the same damn song for three years. Crying about your wife. She's gone. What's it going to take to bring you back from Mars?”

Forest Whitaker - Captain Jack Wander

“- Agent John Bannister: He was reaching for something. I was worried for my life. So I tried to hit you. I should have hit you the fuck harder.
- Man in Orange Suit: That's such bullshit.
- Agent John Bannister: Oh, so now you speak English?
- Man in Orange Suit: If you knew any Spanish, you'd know I was barely speaking it a minute ago.”
Forest Whitaker - Agent John Bannister
Billy Blair - Man in Orange Suit