Forest Whitaker movie quotes

View Quote That's Marty Lee Drywitz. He's impeccably clean. This man has cleaning products shipped in from Wisconsin. He's also one of your roommates, so if I were you, I'd think about suicide.

View Quote I live to collate, sir.

View Quote It zoomed right by, just the way they say it does. Stamp collections, pulling chickweeds from my dad's dichondra plants, arranging rakes by sizes for my mom in the garage. Even encapsulated in two seconds, my life is dull. I find that very alarming.

View Quote They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.

View Quote Look at you. Is there one thing you have done that is good? Did you think this was all a game? 'I will go to Africa and I will play the white man with the natives.' Is that what you thought? We are not a game, Nicholas. We are real. This room here, it is real. I think your death will be the first real thing that has happened to you.

View Quote [about Nicholas] You see, Jonah? This is the sort of man a president needs around him. Someone who is not afraid to speak his mind.

View Quote [Hearing Meg clicking a striker in the panic room. To Raoul] Turn the gas off. Turn the gas off right now.

View Quote This is what I do; if some idiot with a sledgehammer could break in do you really think I'd still have a job?

View Quote [After shooting Raoul dead. To Meg and Sarah] You're gonna be okay now. [Leaves]

View Quote Col. Weber: I don't want to take away from your success, but Dr. Banks, is it really the right approach? Try to teach them how to speak and read? That's gonna take long.
Dr. Louise Banks: You're wrong! Its faster.
Col. Weber: Everything you do here, I have to explain to a room full of men, whose first and last question is how can this be used against us. So you'll have to give me more than that!
Dr. Louise Banks: Kangaroo.
Col. Weber: What is that?
Dr. Louise Banks: In 1770, Captain James Cook's ship ran aground off the coast of Australia and led a party, where they found the aboriginal people. One of the sailors pointed to the animals that hop around and put their babies in their pouch, And he asked what they were. The Aborigines said "kangaroo".
Col. Weber: And your point is?
Dr. Louise Banks: It wasn't until later that they learned that "kangaroo" means "I don't understand". So...I need this so that we don't misinterpret things in there, otherwise it is going to take 10 times as long.
Col. Weber: I can sell that for now. But I need you to submit your vocabulary of words before the next session. Remember what happened to the Aborigines. A more advanced race, nearly wiped them out.
[Col. Weber leaves]
Ian Donnelly: It's a good story.
Dr. Louise Banks: Thanks. It's not true, but it proves my point.

View Quote Col. Weber: You have a vocabulary list for me?
Dr. Louise Banks: I do.
Col. Weber: You're gonna teach them, your name, and Ian's?
Dr. Louise Banks: Yes, so that we can learn their names, if they have names, and then introduce pronouns later.
Col. Weber: These are all grade-school words. Eat. Walk. Help me understand.
[Dr. Banks writes "What is your purpose on Earth?" on the whiteboard]
Dr. Louise Banks: Okay, this is where you want to get to, right?
Col. Weber: That is the question.
Dr. Louise Banks: Okay. So, first, we need to make sure that they understand what a question is. The nature of a request for information, along with a response. Then, we need to clarify the difference between a specific "you"...and a collective "you", because we don't want to know why 'Joe Alien' is here, we want to know why they all landed. And purpose requires an understanding of intent. We need to find out: do they make conscious choices, or is their motivation so instinctive that they don't understand a "why" question at all. And biggest of all, we need to have enough vocabulary with them, that we understand their answer.
Col. Weber: I get it. Stick to your list. Just...Don't add anything to it.

View Quote Col. Weber: [after playing a recording] How would you approach translating this? You hear any words? Phrases?
Dr. Louise Banks: I do not... I do not know.
Col. Weber: So what can you tell?
Dr. Louise Banks: I can tell you that it is impossible to translate an audio file. I would need to be there to interact with them.
Col. Weber: You did not need that for Farsi translation.
Dr. Louise Banks: I did not need because I already knew the language, but this is...
Col. Weber: I know what you're doing.
Dr. Louise Banks: Tell me what I'm doing.
Col. Weber: I'll not take you to Montana. It's all I can do to keep it turning into a tourist site for everybody who has a clearance.
Dr. Louise Banks: I'm just telling you what it would take to do this job.
Col. Weber: It is not a negotiation. If I leave here... your chance is gone. Good day.
Dr. Louise Banks: Colonel...You mentioned Berkeley. Are you going to ask Danvers next?
Col. Weber: Maybe.
Dr. Louise Banks: Before you commit to him...ask him the Sanskrit word for "war" and its translation.

View Quote And Jonah, don't look up!

View Quote Capt. Ramey: Who's your lawyer?
Kelly Shepard: We don't have a lawyer.
Capt. Ramey: He specifically asked that his attorney be brought down here to negotiate his surrender.
Kelly Shepard: Well, we never needed one.
Capt. Ramey: Well, you need a good one now.

View Quote Stu: [to Caller] Stay the **** out of this
Capt. Ramey: Who do you keep talking to on the phone?
Stu: Nobody
Capt. Ramey: Your ah... your friend, your parent, your lover? Who?
The Caller: Careful, Stuart. Careful.
Stu: My psychiatrist.
The Caller: [laughs] Excellent! I should have thought of that.

View Quote Max: Small is good. My powers are able to slip right through the cracks.
Judith: But what if the cracks are closed up?
Max: Then I have a re-cracker, which goes right through that.
Judith: But what if they have some sort of material that re-crackers can't get through?
Max: Then I have a double re-cracker, which can get through anything in this whole universe. And that's the end, and there's nothing more powerful after that, ever. Period.
Alexander: He has a double re-cracker.
Ira: He does sound powerful.

View Quote Carol: Max, what’s wrong with the fort? I thought you said it’d be automatic.
Max: What?
Carol: I thought you said if anybody got in here we didn’t want, the fort would automatically cut their brains out.
[The Wild Things are shocked and offended that Carol would say this in front of Bob and Terry.]
KW: Carol...
Max: Oh, well... I thought that then, but... I kinda decided that if we know them, they should keep their brains. Even if we don’t know them that well.
KW: [to Carol] I think you should apologise to Bob and Terry.
Carol: I don’t apologise to owls. Owls are stupid.
Ira: Carol, that’s hateful.
Carol: Why did you bring them here? Huh? This place was supposed to be for us. They are not sleeping in our pile. [leaves]

View Quote Carol: I can't even look at it.
Douglas: What is it?
Carol: The fort. We gotta tear the fort down.
Douglas: What?
Carol: It wasn't supposed to be like this!
Douglas: No, Carol.
Carol: You said we were all going to sleep together in a real pile, and now you want a secret room. and K.W. is gone for good. And now I have to worry if the sun is gonna die.
Douglas: The sun?
Carol: Look at it. It didn't come up! It's dead.
Judith: What?
Alexander: It's dark.
Ira: Oh, my God!
Judith: Dead?
Max: Carol. Stop!
Carol: It's dead! It's dead.
Max: You're scaring everybody.
Carol: It's morning.
Max: The sun's not dead. It's just nighttime.
Carol: How do you know? I can't trust what you say. Everything keeps changing. Alright, come on, Douglas. We're ripping it down.
Max: Carol, we're NOT rippin' the fort down!
Carol: It was supposed to be a place where only things you wanted to have happen would happen. Come on, Douglas, do what I tell you.
Max: No! We all live here, not just you. It's everybody's. It's Judith and Ira and everybody.
Judith: Oh, finally!?
Carol: You were supposed to keep us safe. You were supposed to take care of us, and you didn't.
Douglas: Carol?
Max: I'm sorry!
Carol: That's not (quite) good enough.
Douglas: Carol?
Carol: You're a terrible King!
Douglas: CAROL?!
Carol: What?!
Douglas: He's not our King.
Carol: What? Don't say that. How could you say that? Don't you dare say that.
Douglas: There's no such thing as a king.
Carol: Don't you say that!
Douglas: He's just a boy pretending to be a wolf pretending to be a king.
Carol: That's not true.
Ira: He's just like us.
Judith: Oh. Why don't I listen to myself?
Carol: No! No! That's not true!
Douglas: Look, I just went along with it because I knew you wanted it so much.
Carol: DON'T SAY THAT!
Judith: Carol!
Max: Don't Carol, stop it!
Douglas: Ow!
Alexander: Oh no!
Max: Stop it! What are you doing!?
Douglas: Carol!
Carol: What?!
Douglas: That was my favourite arm!
Carol: Well, I was just holding onto it, you pulled away.
Douglas: What?
Max: Carol, stop it!
Carol: You lied?
Max: YOU'RE OUT OF CONTROL!
Carol: I not out of control! You were supposed to take care of us. You promised. I'LL EAT YOU UP!!!!!
Ira: Go! Go!