Sidney Poitier Quotes

“But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.”

“I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.”

“I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.”

“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”

“I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.”

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

“So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.”

“If you sent speaking pages, they would be like a brother to me.”

“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.”

“She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.”