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
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.
moments
I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
three minutes understood
I cannot be understood in three minutes.
improving
I defend myself by improving myself.
pace walks unspoken
When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
vision film
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
florida racism
I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.
years understanding granddaughter
I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.
novel
I don't very often read novels.
careers logic reason
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
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.
meaningful differences creating
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
father bigs
My father was very big on marriage.