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
--Sidney Poitier (as Mark Thackeray) in To Sir, with Love
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
--Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones
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]
--Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones
[John punches him]
--Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones
Noah Cullen:
I ain't gettin' mad, Joker. I been mad all my natural life.
--Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones
--Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones
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
--Sidney Poitier (as Walter Lee Younger) in A Raisin in the Sun
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.
--Sidney Poitier (as Noah Cullen) in The Defiant Ones
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
Mother Maria:
[ringing the dinner bell] Schmidt! Schmidt!
Homer Smith: Old Mother gonna feed the slaves?
--Sidney Poitier (as Homer Smith) in Lilies of the Field
Homer Smith: Old Mother gonna feed the slaves?
--Sidney Poitier (as Homer Smith) in Lilies of the Field
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!
--Sidney Poitier (as Homer Smith) in Lilies of the Field
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
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.
--Sidney Poitier (as ) in Duel at Diablo
Toller: You used to be a pretty good sergeant yourself, McAllister, but now you're just a... rank officer.
--Sidney Poitier (as ) in Duel at Diablo
[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.
--Sidney Poitier (as Gordon Ralfe) in A Patch of Blue
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
