Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
Sidney Poitier
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Miami
Florida
Sir Sidney Poitier
Become
Standard
Standards
Actor
Actors
More quotes by Sidney Poitier
I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
Sidney Poitier
I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
Sidney Poitier
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Sidney Poitier
As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.
Sidney Poitier
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.
Sidney Poitier
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
Sidney Poitier
Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
Sidney Poitier
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier
I had two roles for which I compromised.
Sidney Poitier
As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
Sidney Poitier
As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
Sidney Poitier
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
Sidney Poitier
If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.
Sidney Poitier
Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
Sidney Poitier
An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.
Sidney Poitier
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
Sidney Poitier
Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
Sidney Poitier
Ive learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
Sidney Poitier
I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
Sidney Poitier
I defend myself by improving myself.
Sidney Poitier
