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
thinking want way
I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
struggle imperfection life-is
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
self flames trying
I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.
The older we get the less afraid we are.
shots ability my-own
But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
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.
wanted values
I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
player eight scripts
I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
who-i-am
So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.