Sidney Poitier Quotes

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.

Sidney Poitier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out.

Ana Ivanovic

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I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.

Sid Waddell

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The most important thing I want to get across is that maintaining weight loss is just hard. It takes a dedication to exercise and eating right most of the time.

Trisha Yearwood

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I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.

Rob Brydon

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My brother and I do trivia quizzes all the time.

Ruth B

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My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

Rufus Wainwright

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I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

Michiko Kakutani

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I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

Miles Teller

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I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That's the way I see it.

Denis Villeneuve

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It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.

David Whyte

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I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

Claude Monet

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I love pirates, and I'm a big fan of the Johnny Depp films.

Bradley Walsh

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