Sidney Quotes
33 quotes by 28 authors
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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
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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.
— Wesley Morris
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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
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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 glad I did…
— Richard Widmark
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I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.
— Dave Willis
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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.
— Mario Lemieux
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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…
— Bernie Mac
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But in my mind, I don't think there's any question Sidney Crosby is the best all-around player in the game. His hockey sense is so…
— Wayne Gretzky
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Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I…
— Bobby Orr
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When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then…
— Morgan Freeman
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A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie…
— Scott Raab
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I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the…
— Simon Cowell
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I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no…
— Charles Krauthammer
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I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
— Steve Lacy
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing…
— Bernie Mac
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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet,…
— Mandy Patinkin
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'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
— Steven Spielberg
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I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated…
— Daniel H. Pink
Who Wrote These Sidney Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 33 Sidney Quotes, led by these top contributors: