Sidney Poitier Quotes & Sayings
71 most famous Sidney Poitier quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 97 year old Bahamanian actor born on Feb 20, 1927.
“To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”
“So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.”
“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.”
“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”
“I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.”
“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.”
“I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.”
“So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.”
“Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.”
“There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.”
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