Film Quotes by Sidney Poitier
29 quotes
Year: 1967
Director:
James Clavell
Director:
James Clavell
Mark Thackeray:
It seems that you know so little, and are so easily amused, that I can look forward to a very happy time.
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Mark Thackeray)
in
To Sir, with Love
(1967)
Year: 1958
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Noah Cullen:
[after covering Joker's face with mud so it doesn't show in the moonlight] There, now just the meanness shines through.
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Noah Cullen)
in
The Defiant Ones
(1958)
Year: 1958
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Noah Cullen:
[to John] Go on, tell me all that big talk about Charlie Potatoes, when the chains off and nobody chasing you. Come on. You can't, can you? You can't because you're nothing. You're not even a man! You're a monkey on a stick. That cracker mob back there, they pull the string and you jump.
[John punches him]
[John punches him]
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Noah Cullen)
in
The Defiant Ones
(1958)
Year: 1958
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Noah Cullen:
I ain't gettin' mad, Joker. I been mad all my natural life.
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Noah Cullen)
in
The Defiant Ones
(1958)
Year: 1961
Director:
Daniel Petrie
Director:
Daniel Petrie
Walter Lee Younger:
[to George Murchison, Beneatha's date] How come all you college boys wear them faggoty-looking white shoes?
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Walter Lee Younger)
in
A Raisin in the Sun
(1961)
Year: 1958
Director:
Stanley Kramer
Director:
Stanley Kramer
John 'Joker' Jackson:
Cullen, I can't make it.
Noah Cullen: [Holding out his arm as if they are still chained together] Come on, man, you draggin' the chain.
Noah Cullen: [Holding out his arm as if they are still chained together] Come on, man, you draggin' the chain.
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Noah Cullen)
in
The Defiant Ones
(1958)
Year: 1963
Director:
Ralph Nelson
Director:
Ralph Nelson
Mother Maria:
[ringing the dinner bell] Schmidt! Schmidt!
Homer Smith: Old Mother gonna feed the slaves?
Homer Smith: Old Mother gonna feed the slaves?
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Homer Smith)
in
Lilies of the Field
(1963)
Year: 1963
Director:
Ralph Nelson
Director:
Ralph Nelson
Mother Maria:
[the morning after a fiesta] Well, you are awake?
Homer Smith: Yeah, I guess so.
Mother Maria: Good.
[throws a cup of cold water in his face]
Homer Smith: Why'd you go and do that?
Mother Maria: The women last night, they say that is the only thing when a man has been mixing wine with tequila!
[walks away]
Homer Smith: I'm gonna mix you with tequila!
Homer Smith: Yeah, I guess so.
Mother Maria: Good.
[throws a cup of cold water in his face]
Homer Smith: Why'd you go and do that?
Mother Maria: The women last night, they say that is the only thing when a man has been mixing wine with tequila!
[walks away]
Homer Smith: I'm gonna mix you with tequila!
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Homer Smith)
in
Lilies of the Field
(1963)
Year: 1966
Director:
Ralph Nelson
Director:
Ralph Nelson
Lt. Scotty McAllister:
You were a pretty good sergeant once, Toller, but now you're just another money grubbing civilian.
Toller: You used to be a pretty good sergeant yourself, McAllister, but now you're just a... rank officer.
Toller: You used to be a pretty good sergeant yourself, McAllister, but now you're just a... rank officer.
--
Sidney Poitier
in
Duel at Diablo
(1966)
Year: 1965
Director:
Guy Green
Director:
Guy Green
[at a cash register]
Selina D'Arcy: What's happening now?
Gordon Ralfe: They're adding it all up.
Selina D'Arcy: In their heads?
Gordon Ralfe: No, on machines. They don't use heads anymore.
Selina D'Arcy: What's happening now?
Gordon Ralfe: They're adding it all up.
Selina D'Arcy: In their heads?
Gordon Ralfe: No, on machines. They don't use heads anymore.
--
Sidney Poitier
(as Gordon Ralfe)
in
A Patch of Blue
(1965)