Forest Whitaker movie quotes

“Vietnam took my boy, and I didn't understand why we were there in the first place.”
Forest Whitaker - Cecil Gaines

“- Billy Hope: I can handle the rules, man, I'll handle the rules.
- Tick Wills: No playing around, no being late. None of that.
- Billy Hope: Yeah, fuck it, I'm in.
- Tick Wills: No swearing. Did I tell you no swearing?”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Billy Hope
Forest Whitaker - Thick Willis

“You've gotta let her hate you so she can get better.”

Forest Whitaker - Tuck Willis

“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there is nothing left to do, and nothing else to pursue.”
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

“Napoleon taught us never to stop an enemy when he's making a mistake.”
Forest Whitaker - Bernard

Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase "Form is emptiness". That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase "Emptiness is form". One should not think that these are two separate things.
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

“- Ker: I don't know what you're so down about. You still get to be head of security, which, from what I can tell, is a pretty cushy job.
- Terl: Well, I can assure you that I was not groomed since birth to have some cushy job that even a moron like you could perform. While you were still learning how to spell your name, I was being trained to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Forest Whitaker - Ker
John Travolta - Terl

“- Dr. Laura Baker: You don't want us to capture her alive so that we can study her?
- Preston Lennox: Laura, I think this is strictly a search and destroy operation. Nobody ever asked me to ever find any thing they didn't want dead.
- Dan Smithson, Empath: I'm sorry for you.
- Preston Lennox: Yeah, well, thank you, Dan. I'm sorry for her.”

Marg Helgenberger - Dr. Laura Baker
Michael Madsen - Preston Lennox
Forest Whitaker - Dan Smithson

“I go to a liver doctor and I pay him $50. And it don't help me. I go to an ulcer doctor. Same thing, except I pay him $75. But I go to some little cat up in a house somewhere and pay him $10 for a bag of shit and a little peace. My ulcers don't hurt, liver don't hurt. My heart trouble is gone. And this is the man I'm supposed to stay away from?...” (continue)(continue reading)
Forest Whitaker - Charlie "Bird" Parker

“- Bryan Mills: All you have to know is I'm innocent. Give me two days, I can prove it. I can find out who did it.
- Franck Dotzler: You may very well be innocent, Mr. Mills. But that's the court's job to decide, it's not mine. My job is to bring you in and let the law take its course, that's it.”
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills
Forest Whitaker - Franck Dotzler

“I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.”
Forest Whitaker

“I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.”
Forest Whitaker

“As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together.”
Forest Whitaker

“- Bernie: You want me to put a tail on him?
- Franck Dotzler: No, it's a waste of time. These guys could lose a tail if it was attached to a dog. We're done.”

David Warshofsky - Bernie
Forest Whitaker - Franck Dotzler

“You see, Jonah? This is the sort of man a president needs around him. Someone who is not afraid to speak his mind.”

Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“- Franck Dotzler: If you go down this road, the LAPD, the FBI, the CIA ... they're all gonna come for you. They'll find you. And they'll stop you.
- Bryan Mills: Good luck.”
Forest Whitaker - Franck Dotzler
Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“You must look through your eyes, see what it is that they want, see what it is that they need, anticipate, bring a smile to the principal's eyes.”
Forest Whitaker - Cecil Gaines

“- Lewison: What makes you think this had to do with politics?
- Bernard: Everything is politics. Philosophically.”
Ian McNeice - Lewison
Forest Whitaker - Bernard

“For a country that doesn't give its citizens the right to bear arms, there have been an unusual number of people getting shot, lately.”
Forest Whitaker - Bernard

“I've never pissed holding a girl's hand, Jude.”
Forest Whitaker - Jody

“- Freddie Fallows: Are you political, Mr. Gaines?
- Cecil Gaines: No, sir.
- Freddie Fallows: Good. We have no tolerance for politics at the White House.”
Colman Domingo - Freddie Fallows
Forest Whitaker - Cecil Gaines

“America has always turned a blind eye to what we done to our own. We look out to the world and judge. We hear about the concentration camps but these camps went on for two hundred years right here in America.”
Forest Whitaker - Cecil Gaines

“You went toe-to-toe with evil, and you won.”
Forest Whitaker - Captain Jack Wander

“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding...” (continue)(continue reading)
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

“- Idi Amin: But a man that shows fear... he is weak, and he is a slave.
- Nicholas Garrigan: Well... if you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.”
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan