When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.

You shall love. Whether you like it or not.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

You don't need a man, you need a champion.

I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

The moment you in a relationship, know that every action you take, carries your partner's dignity along with yours.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

I'm like a shooting star! I've come so far! I can't go back to where I used to be!

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.