Sidney Poitier Quotes
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Sidney Poitier Quotes & Sayings
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
My father was the quintessential husband and dad.
— 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
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 respecta 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
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
— Sidney Poitier
I defend myself by improving myself.
— Sidney Poitier
I had two roles for which I compromised.
— Sidney Poitier
