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
dad husband father
My father was the quintessential husband and dad.
mom brother dad
I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
writing quitting
I'm going to quit writing.
vision film
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
actors standards
When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
father bigs
My father was very big on marriage.
people black theater
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
meaningful differences creating
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
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.
mother religious believe
I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.
views race racism
I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.
thinking compliment enormous
To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.
improving
I defend myself by improving myself.
three minutes understood
I cannot be understood in three minutes.