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When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit him. He makes the scene utterly real. — Judy Geeson

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. — Sidney Poitier

I am the me I choose to be. — Sidney Poitier

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values. — Sidney Poitier

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. — Sidney Poitier

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. — Sidney Poitier

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it. — Sidney Poitier

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her. — Sidney Poitier

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before. — Sidney Poitier

I get offered work these days. — Sidney Poitier

My father was very big on marriage. — Sidney Poitier

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor. — Carl Weathers

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes. — Lou Diamond Phillips

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. — Sidney Poitier

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are. — Sidney Poitier

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. — Sidney Poitier

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were. — Sidney Poitier

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. — Sidney Poitier

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard. — Sidney Poitier

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better. — Sidney Poitier

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. — Sidney Poitier

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. — Sidney Poitier

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends. — Sidney Poitier

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live. — Sidney Poitier

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. — Sidney Poitier

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure. — Sidney Poitier

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things-you feel that after death, you will be no more. — Sidney Poitier

The older we get the less afraid we are. — Sidney Poitier

History passes the final judgment. — Sidney Poitier

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me. — Sidney Poitier

Jackie Robinson is a true legend. — Sidney Poitier

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it. — Sidney Poitier

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents. — Sidney Poitier

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether. — Sidney Poitier

I don't very often read novels. — Sidney Poitier

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. — Sidney Poitier

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness. — Sidney Poitier

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing. — Sidney Poitier

I'm not a library. — Sidney Poitier

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant ... I had never been so described as Florida described me. — Sidney Poitier

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. — Sidney Poitier

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another. — Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. — Wesley Morris

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. — Sidney Poitier

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was ... a human being. — Sidney Poitier

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment. — Sidney Poitier

I'm going to quit writing. — Sidney Poitier

My wife collects knickknacks. — Sidney Poitier

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters. — Sidney Poitier

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man. — Sidney Poitier

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. — Sidney Poitier

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. — Sidney Poitier

I cannot be understood in three minutes. — Sidney Poitier

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real. — Sidney Poitier

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. — Sidney Poitier

My father was the quintessential husband and dad. — Sidney Poitier

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. — Sidney Poitier

In America, it is difficult to be your own man. — Sidney Poitier

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's. — Sidney Poitier

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month. — Sidney Poitier

Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role. — Keith Stanfield

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours. — Sidney Poitier

My autobiography was simply the story of my life. — Sidney Poitier

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. — Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know. — Sidney Poitier

The journey has been incredible from its beginning. — Sidney Poitier

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth. — Sidney Poitier

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion. — Sidney Poitier

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life. — Sidney Poitier

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. — Sidney Poitier

In my case, the body of work stands for itself ... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. — Sidney Poitier

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. — Sidney Poitier

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. — Sidney Poitier

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. — Sidney Poitier

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. — Sidney Poitier

I have a kind of respect
a worshipful attitude, even
for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons ... — Sidney Poitier

I'll always be chasing you ... Glory. — Sidney Poitier

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure. — Sidney Poitier

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. — Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores. — Quincy Jones

I defend myself by improving myself. — Sidney Poitier

I had two roles for which I compromised. — Sidney Poitier

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it. — Sidney Poitier