Quotes from Sidney Poitier movies and TV shows - page 2 of 2

Homer Smith: I'm gonna' build me a chapel.

Homer Smith: Gringo? I don't know if that's a step up or a step down from some other things I've been called.

Mother: They've even got photos of the guy leaving the embassy, through the back service entrance. Hey, Crease, you on?
Donald Crease: Yeah, I'm on.
Mother: Were you still in C.I.A. in '72?
Donald Crease: Yeah, why?
Mother: Did you know the Deputy Director of Planning was down in Managua, Nicaragua the day before the earthquake?
Donald Crease: Now what are you saying, the C.I.A. caused the Managua earthquake?
Mother: Well, I can't prove it, but.

Donald Crease: There isn't a government on this planet that wouldn't kill us all for that thing.

Crease: Now what are you saying, the NSA killed Kennedy?
Mother: No, they shot him but they didn't kill him. He's still alive.

Donald Crease: You guys'll be chalk outlines without me.

Donald Crease: Did I ever tell you why I had to leave the CIA?
Mother: Uh, no?
Donald Crease: My temper.

Mother: Warner just pulled up! He's got Liz with him!
Donald Crease: Oh no! Martin, I think you'd better hurry.
Martin Bishop: The one thing I can't do is hurry.

Donald Crease: You get all the fun stuff.

Mark Thackeray: Marriage is not for the weak, the selfish, the insecure.

Pamela Dare: Sir, would you dance with me tonight?
Mark Thackeray: Of course, but nothing too fast. I'm getting much too old for that sort of thing Miss Dare.
Pamela Dare: We'll make it something special, promise?
Mark Thackeray: Promise.
Pamela Dare: Sir, would you call me Pamela tonight?
Mark Thackeray: Yes... Pamela.

Mark Thackeray: If you apologize because you are afraid, then you're a child, not a man.

Mark Thackeray: I believe one should fight for what one believes. Provided one is absolutely sure one is absolutely right.

Mark Thackeray: It seems you know so little, and are so easily amused, I can look forward to a very happy time.