Quotes By Sidney Poitier
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
Sidney Poitier
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Sidney Poitier
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
Sidney Poitier
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
Sidney Poitier
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
Sidney Poitier
I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
Sidney Poitier
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
Sidney Poitier
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Sidney Poitier
Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.
Sidney Poitier
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
Sidney Poitier
Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.
Sidney Poitier