American - Actor | February 20, 1924 -
My wife collects knickknacks.
Sidney Poitier
Wife
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.
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I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.
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If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.
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I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.
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My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.
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My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
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I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
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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.
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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
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In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
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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.
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