Actor Quotes

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

I like poems that are little games.

I like poems that are complex.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!