Sidney Poitier

My father was very big on marriage.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.