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 compliment enormous
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
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.
thinking talking trying
Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.
thinking want way
I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
came morning next port saw tall
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.
screen
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.
few good
If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
almost blacks consciousness infected job perception reflective
Almost all the job opportunities were reflective of the stereotypical perception of blacks that had infected the whole consciousness of the country.
country dreamt father given mother received today
My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I, ... And all that I am, I've received from them and a country that has today given me the opportunities, and to my grandchildren, that I have never dreamt of.
learned places questioned quickly quite various wandered
I learned quite quickly that there were places I couldn't go, that I would be questioned if I wandered into various neighborhoods.
children father son
As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
children men apologizing
If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.