Sidney Poitier: 17 Movie Quotes with Audio

Updated: Aug 3, 2026

Movie quotes delivered by Sidney Poitier, ranked by user ratings. Listen online or download free MP3 and WAV clips.

1 They call me Mr. Tibbs. -Mr. Tibbs!

As Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

2 You know a lot of things, don't ya? Well, just what do you know about insomnia? -Bourbon can't cure it. -Well, that's for sure.

Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

3 Hey, Martin! Telephone! -Just a minute. -It's your mother!

As Crease in Sneakers (1992)

4 You take him outside, Wood, but treat him easy. Because a man that makes $162.39 a week, man, we do not want to ruffle him! -No, sir.

As Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

5 Would you feel the face and jaw, please? Am I mistaken, or has rigor begun? -It has.

As Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

6 All right. Give me another day. Two days. I'm close. I can pull that fat cat down. I can bring him right off this hill.

As Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

7 You talk crazy. You gin drunk? -Just homesick.

As Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

8 There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

As Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

9 Look in her purse. -What's that mean? -She's got $100 to pay for an abortion.

As Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

10 Well, we have never been to Europe together. -That's right. -And we are going. Madrid, Lisbon. -Athens. Oh, and Scotland. -And Tahiti. -Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

As Crease in Sneakers (1992)