Sidney Poitier Quotes, Thoughts and images

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I am the me I choose to be.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I defend myself by improving myself.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

I" ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

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

History passes the final judgment

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

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

I'm going to quit writing.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.