Top 34 I Am Not Sidney Poitier Quotes
#2. I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and substance. You always remember them.
Bernie Mac
#3. 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.
Sidney Poitier
#4. 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
#6. Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.
Chadwick Boseman
#7. 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.
Sidney Poitier
#8. When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
Sidney Poitier
#9. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier
#12. I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
Sidney Poitier
#13. 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.
Sidney Poitier
#14. My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
Sidney Poitier
#15. I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
Sidney Poitier
#16. 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
#17. Stay from underfoot and don't get into any trouble. You hear me?" "Yes, ma'am, I hear you." Due to past experience, she may not have completely believed me. When
Sidney Poitier
#18. The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
Brian J. White
#19. I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
Sidney Poitier
#20. Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
Quincy Jones
#21. 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.
Sidney Poitier
#22. If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
Sidney Poitier
#23. Our fellow Negro citizens could be summed up in something Tessie said after watching Sidney Poitier's performance in To Sir with Love, which opened a month before the riots. She said, You see, they can speak perfectly normal if they want.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#24. Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.
Lou Diamond Phillips
#25. My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
Sidney Poitier
#27. I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
Sidney Poitier
#29. The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.
Sidney Poitier
#30. So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
Sidney Poitier
#31. I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
Sidney Poitier
#32. Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
Brian J. White
#33. We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
Sidney Poitier
#34. I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
Sidney Poitier
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