Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

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

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

My wife collects knickknacks.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I don't very often read novels.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

My father was very big on marriage.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I'm not a library.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.