Quotes by 'Sidney Poitier'

Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE, is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author and diplomat...

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.

next-day next wanted

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

careers deeds way

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.

fathers-day dad fatherhood

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

ive-learned outlets

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

better-than-you

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

determined randomness seems

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

shots ability my-own

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

moments

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

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.

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.

weapons wanted

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

oneness anxious after-death

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things-you feel that after death, you will be no more.