Top 70 Quotes by Sidney Poitier

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

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

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

I get offered work these days.

Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.

History passes the final judgment.

I'm going to quit writing.

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

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