I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me,… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them,… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share
