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" If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. "

Sidney Poitier

Structure

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" I get offered work these days. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. "

" I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me. "

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Vision

Business

" My father was very big on marriage. "

" In America, it is difficult to be your own man. "

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

" I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. "

Sidney Poitier

Sometimes

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" I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. "

" I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. "

" My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. "

" My autobiography was simply the story of my life. "

" But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. "

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

Sidney Poitier

Satisfied

Return

" I'm a good person. "

" I had two roles for which I compromised. "

" I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life. "

" I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life. "

" 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. "

" My wife collects knickknacks. "

Sidney Poitier

Wife

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

" So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether. "

" The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally. "

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

" The journey has been incredible from its beginning. "

" I cannot be understood in three minutes. "

" I have always been a learner because I knew nothing. "