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Sidney Poitier Quotes

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 20, 1924

Topics

Myself Color Never Human Question

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

Best Doing You Drama Way Mean

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

New York New Outside Up State DC

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

Myself I Am People Me Feel Bad

When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.

Mirror Myself You Look Party Go

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

Father Mother Home More Hard Leave

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

Like Lot Really Directors

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Intelligence Finance Wealth Even

Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.

Control Help You Artist More Need

A helmet is the most important part of any jockey's kit because of the number of falls you take, so I wouldn't want to be wearing anything on the track unless it had been thoroughly tested.

You Helmet Important Want Anything

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

Work Hard Work You Matter Hard Got

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

Rudolph A. Marcus

Education School High School High

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Strength Long Want Endure Anything

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