Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE, is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author and diplomat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 February 1927
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
mother father men
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
novel
I don't very often read novels.
careers logic reason
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
pace walks unspoken
When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
dad husband father
My father was the quintessential husband and dad.
mom brother dad
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.
writing quitting
I'm going to quit writing.
vision film
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
actors standards
When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
father bigs
My father was very big on marriage.
people black theater
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
meaningful differences creating
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
running florida racism
I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.
mother religious believe
I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.