Sidney Poitier Quotes

My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.

— Elvis Mitchell

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for…

— Quincy Jones

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm…

— Richard Widmark

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

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

— Wesley Morris

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.

— Lou Diamond Phillips

When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit…

— Judy Geeson

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of…

— Carl Weathers

Tom Brokaw has friends who are actors, and yet he feels that, as bright as they are, they are not articulate. So…

— Mariette Hartley

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana…

— David Steinberg

The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep…

— Brian J. White

I will say this: the first film that I was on was 'In the Heat of the Night', that Norman Jewison directed…

— Scott Wilson

The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy -…

— Wesley Morris

I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so…

— Dennis Haysbert

I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast of 'A Raisin…

— Glynn Turman

Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good…

— Brian J. White

One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between…

— Michael Ealy

A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black…

— Scott Raab

One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, 'The Measure of a Man,' he talks about the difference between…

— Michael Ealy

I met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming ... Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it's funny, I…

— Gene Wilder

I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney…

— Persis Khambatta

Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as…

— Bill Duke

I would love, love, love to do a comedy like 'Gentleman's Guide,' something farcical and fast-paced, but I also want to do…

— Joshua Henry

When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I…

— Morgan Freeman

Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But…

— Chadwick Boseman

Usually, you get to interview that one girl who plays the sister on some Disney show - you interview that girl a…

— Ross Mathews

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around…

— Bernie Mac

I want to talk to you later. Both of you. Because Oprah got allowed me to meet somebody by the name of…

— Jamie Foxx

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across…

— James Earl Jones

I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and…

— Bernie Mac

Sidney Poitier was directing a film called 'Hanky Panky.' And he said, 'Do you want to come with me to New York…

— Gene Wilder