Sidney Poitier
Related My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ... CARL WEATHERS KATE MCKINNON Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain la... KEVIN LOVE BARBRA STREISAND I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so... BARBARA STREISAND The umpire was a little uncomfortable with me, but I didn't pay much attention to him. I knew I had ... WANDY RODRIGUEZ SHAWN ASHMORE I noticed that at least one-third of the community were wearing black shirts. I felt supported ... w... JADE CRAIG There were a lot of people in the Seattle office that didn't share the policy goals of his clients, ... TOM ALLISON 'Crash' came from personal experience. I saw things inside me from living in L.A. that made ... PAUL HAGGIS I guess the bottom line of the tapes is -- I don't know whether I'm typical -- they make me itch. Th... JOSEPH LIEBERMAN I never saw a Laurel & Hardy movie in a theater when they first ran, when I was a kid. But as a ... RICH MOORE LEA MICHELE [On fellow Oscar winner Sidney Poitier:] 'I saw you once and I looked into your eyes and there was a... JAMIE FOXX GISELE BUNDCHEN I didn't anticipate the pressure. If I stated that I was staying away from alcohol, that's when I fe... LALA ALVAREZ All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what ... DIANA RIGG MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV MITCHELL BAKER I'm not the type to just yell at somebody. That was uncomfortable for me. ACIE LAW KRISTEN STEWART PETER MCWILLIAMS PETER MCWILLIAMS It made me uncomfortable. I guess I've always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace. BUDD SCHULBERG Sometimes that is uncomfortable and unpleasant, but it is part of what our members sign on for. DAVID STEWART LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI TOM FORD I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine an... PERSIS KHAMBATTA Sometimes it feels like you and I are at the movie theater, sitting next to each other and watching ... IGOR ELISEEV I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest. ELIZABETH REASER TRENT REZNOR COLIN FIRTH EULA BISS GERARD WAY I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive... SELMA BLAIR SUSAN CAIN That was a little uncomfortable CHRISTIAN SLATER The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d... JOHN CLEESE WILLIAM GIBSON The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn. DAN GLICKMAN DOUGLAS ADAMS I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in th... KAT EDMONSON NANCY MARCHAND ROBERT PATTINSON I vowed that when the coaches came to our house to recruit Bryan that I was not going to be one of t... GREG MATTISON I'd be lying if I said it didn't affect me. I definitely felt a little uncomfortable. KYLE LOHSE Most were not ergonomically designed; they were uncomfortable and noisy. MARSHALL WILLIAMS I've played horrible people and done horrible things, and there were moments on 'The Knick&#... ERIC JOHNSON CARL GUSTAV JUNG SASHA COHEN CHANG-RAE LEE There's not a whole lot of feeling to it, ... I can feel it pumping inside, but it's not an uncomfor... LARRY ADAMS ARTHUR MILLER It was very uncomfortable knowing that our children were exposed to something so grotesque. I am ver... ANA BOLANOS I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music. KRISTIN KREUK He got two text messages that he was a bit uncomfortable about ..he brought them to me and I looked ... PHIL LOVE I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watc... LENNY ABRAHAMSON We know people will feel uncomfortable on sharing. DIANA SEBZDA CONNOR FRANTA I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And... EDD BYRNES I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with ... DAN GLICKMAN ANNETTE FUNICELLO We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was... DUSTIN KENSRUE It was awkward at first because I didn't know what to do. When I first wrestled all I wrestled was b... MORIAH FERNANDEZ JOHN HAWKES MAGGIE STIEFVATER It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes... AILEEN QUINN I'm definitely not comfortable in a Speedo! That's as uncomfortable as it gets! ADAM RODRIGUEZ I was extremely uncomfortable when my parents asked me to interpret for them, ... We have got to und... LELAND YEE I think just generally, my footwork was really not good and it was uncomfortable to move around the ... PATTY SCHNYDER [But for the people who don't,] it gets pretty uncomfortable after that, ... It doesn't bother me, b... DON GRAHAM JIM MORRISON Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic. WAYNE GANDY What that did was take a lot of money from black theaters. It really hurt the black theater. CHARLES WELDON STEVEN SPIELBERG I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes ... MELANIE LYNSKEY I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't. SAMUEL N. BEHRMAN I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast o... GLYNN TURMAN Uncomfortable feelings must be felt, not repressed, to be released. JIM GENOVESE Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons... PATRICK STEWART KHLOE KARDASHIAN I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to... AUBREY PLAZA I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the futur... D.S. MIXELL It's possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military... but actua... JOHN FLEMING DONNA MILLS YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA ROSS MATHEWS NIECY NASH Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people... APRIL GORNIK RUBY DEE It's a very uncomfortable position, in light of the fact that we've temporarily laid off 40 people. MAYOR BETH SABILIA GEORGE LUCAS SONG HYE-KYO June was best friends with Robert Duvall, and I was directing a movie with Duvall and they were cons... JAMES KEACH I was the sibling that kind of kept it all on a level when life at home got tough. I did it through ... JOHNNY GALECKI I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing... RACHEL KELLER PETE WENTZ TESS GERRITSEN LEO TOLSTOY Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying t... JOEL COEN
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If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lic... 
I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so... 
Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along wi... 
I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes m... 
When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all... 
I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It f... 
I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, an... 
It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - a... 
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It
may get tough, but it's a sma... 
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a sma... 
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon... 
She did want to do it, and then when she was on the set I think she felt uncomfortable, and I didn't... 
I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy. 
It made me uncomfortable, 
On the pro-vaccine side - and not everyone does this, but I saw it enough for it to make me really u... 
When Scorsese shoots a violent scene, it's very uncomfortable - it's not like watching '... 
Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of pe... 
I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be ... 
He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each. 
I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, ... 
I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myse... 
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in ... 
I've designed since I was 12. The first was when I skated to Carmen, in red and gold and black. ... 
I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people d... 
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation m... 
The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin... 
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listeni... 
Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a profess... 
I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of ... 
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable. 
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's ... 
I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal posi... 
I was very uncomfortable in the habit-all that starched white stuff. I smoked at the time and used t... 
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem. 
Usually, you get to interview that one girl who plays the sister on some Disney show - you interview... 
As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was wat... 
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. 
If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference ... 
I don't find it uncomfortable that I'm recognized and liked by so many people. If that were ... 
It's just not cool when people are on stage and yelling 'faggot' and stuff like that and making peop... 
I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me t... 
With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of the... 
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. 
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply w... 
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. 
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. 
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. 
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... 
In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play o... 
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. 
Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Be... 
Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love. 
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. 
I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind. 
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw.... 
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... 
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. 
Liars need to have good memories. 
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. 
Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup. 
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ... 
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. 
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t... 
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the s... 
Out of the hills of Habersham,
Down the valleys of Hall,
I hurry amain to reach the plain;
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I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.