Top 70 Quotes by Sidney Poitier

Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

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

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

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

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

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

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

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

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

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.