We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists … in the loved one, perfection.
—Sidney Poitier
Topics: Love
Since I couldn’t actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no
—Sidney Poitier
Topics: Weapon
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you’re not going to get very far. You simply won’t. The journey has been incredible from its beginning. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
—Sidney Poitier
Topics: Chance
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