170 Quotes by Sidney Poitier

I’m telling you this so that if you ever are in the position of carrying a secret about something that you have done that makes you ashamed you will make the choice to confront yourself. It will take guts to admit that you have behaved in a way that prevents you from being your better self, and then choose to act differently. It.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don’t think it’s necessarily deserved.

The willingness to receive help and appreciate its value when it arrives, sometimes unannounced, is a subject that returns us to the question of why and how our lives turn out as they do.

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

I get offered work these days.

I'm not a library.

I'm a good person.

My wife collects knickknacks.