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    Sidney Poitier

    Read through the most famous quotes from Sidney Poitier




    I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. ↗


    — Sidney Poitier

    #i #images #knew #me #movie

    I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. ↗


    — Sidney Poitier

    #like #me #photographers #pictures #sometimes

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


    — Sidney Poitier

    #because #extraordinary #feel #had #i

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


    — Sidney Poitier

    #early #everyone #given #had #i

    I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month. ↗


    — Sidney Poitier

    #demand #eight #i #kind #month

    I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it. ↗


    — Sidney Poitier

    #because #change #every #follows #i

    I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. ↗


    — Sidney Poitier

    #father #him #i #man #poor

    I'll always be chasing you... Glory. ↗


    — Sidney Poitier

    #chasing #glory #i #you

    I'm going to quit writing. ↗


    — Sidney Poitier

    #i #quit #writing

    I'm not a library. ↗


    — Sidney Poitier

    #library






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    Directorial career
    Poitier directed several films the most successful being the Richard Pryor-Gene Wilder comedy Stir Crazy which for years was the highest grossing film directed by a person of African descent. Honors and awards
    1958 British Academy Film Award for Best Foreign Actor for The Defiant Ones
    1958 Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for The Defiant Ones
    1963 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Lilies of the Field
    1963 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Lilies of the Field
    1963 Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for Lilies of the Field
    1974 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
    1982 Golden Globe Cecil B. Poitier is also the subject of the biography Sidney Poitier: Man Actor Icon (2004) by historian Aram Goudsouzian.

    On August 12 2009 Sidney Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom the United States of America's highest civilian honor by President Barack Obama. In 1963 Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field.

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