I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.
President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.