Actor Quotes

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had never occurred before. That's magic.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' a

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!

God bless all the little children in the world.

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.