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
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.
views race racism
I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.
thinking compliment enormous
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
improving
I defend myself by improving myself.
three minutes understood
I cannot be understood in three minutes.
moments
I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
men thinking body
In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
pain expectations suffering
We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
shots ability my-own
But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
real exercise games
Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.
fashion rebellion form
Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
mother force remarkable
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.