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
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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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.
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In America, it is difficult to be your own man.
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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.
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In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
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My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
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The next morning we came into the port at Miami. I saw the buildings. For me they were tall, tall buildings; there was nothing like them in Nassau.
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I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so.
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If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
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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.