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
men america difficult
In America, it is difficult to be your own man.
florida racism
I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.
years understanding granddaughter
I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.
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.