Sir Sidney Poitier movie quotes

“Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“Dad, you're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - John Prentice

“I owe you nothing! If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you were supposed to do because you brought me into this world, and from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me, like I will owe my son if I ever have another.”

Sir Sidney Poitier - John Prentice

“- Jonathan Knox: I've never seen a grizzly just turn and run like that.
- Warren Stantin: Everybody else up here acts like they've never seen a black man before. Why should the bear be different?”
Tom Berenger - Jonathan Knox
Sir Sidney Poitier - Warren Stantin

“There isn't a government on this planet that wouldn't kill us all for that thing.”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Crease

“Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

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

“So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“To a considerable extent, we control how we are perceived.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Mark Thackeray

“- Roy Parmenter: How'd a pretty girl like you get mixed up in guidance counseling?
- Verna McLaughlin: How'd a nice guy like you get mixed up in the FBl?
- Roy Parmenter: You ever guided any students towards the Bureau, Verna?
- Verna McLaughlin: l hope not.
- Roy Parmenter: How about me guiding you towards dinner?”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter
Loretta Devine - Verna McLaughlin

“- Warren Stantin: Do you mountainmen do this kind of shit a lot?
- Jonathan Knox: Every damn day!”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Warren Stantin
Tom Berenger - Jonathan Knox

“I'm going back to Russia where I will stay until Terek Murad rots in prison or in the grave.”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Preston

“- Preston: I wonder if we'll ever know who the hell he was.
- Declan Mulqueen: We know all we need to. He was evil, he is dead. And he's gone. Nothing more matters.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Preston
Richard Tiffany Gere - Declan Mulqueen

- Preston: Major Koslova ends the debate about women in combat as far as I'm concerned.
- Declan Mulqueen: How's that?
- Preston: She saved my life and took out Terek's brother. She did it knowing she'd be drawing a death sentence down on her neck. But when we offered to set her up some place else when this is over, you know what she said? "The... (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Sidney Poitier - Preston
Richard Tiffany Gere - Declan Mulqueen

“Who are you? Do you see you the way you want to be seen? Then you must see character in yourself, discipline in yourself, determination in yourself - to survive - with dignity, no matter how tough the world around you is. Is that who you are? If not, is that who you want to be?”

Sir Sidney Poitier - Mark Thackeray

“- Roy Parmenter: You gotta' be crazy to bring a child into this ugly world.
- Jeff Grant: What's so hard about it?
- Roy Parmenter: Making a buck. Raising a family. Keeping it all together takes talent. Love.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter
River Phoenix - Jeff Grant

“- Jonathan Knox: Tell me something; What would you miss, beside telephones?
- Warren Stantin: Everything!”

Tom Berenger - Jonathan Knox
Sir Sidney Poitier - Warren Stantin

“After all, a lot of people are going to think we are a shocking pair.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - John Prentice

“We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“- Student: In this country you're nothin'. It doesn't matter how many schools you teach in... you and me, we walk down the street and all people are gonna see is black skin.
- Mark Thackeray: What do you want them to see?
- Student: Me.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Mark Thackeray