Sidney Poitier Quotes
Top 77 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
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.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
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.
I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant ... I had never been so described as Florida described me.
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.
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.
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was ... a human being.
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.
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
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.
In my case, the body of work stands for itself ... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
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.