British Actor Quotes

"And one of the odd things about it is that poetry is now fleeing from the academies to another institution, which is the performance poetry."

"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's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater."

"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."

"Poetry is composing for the breath."

"The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product."

"There are some poets, and some of the good ones, who really act as careerists and go out and make a career, make sure they're well regarded."

"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide."

"I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff."

"I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever."

"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."

"I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act."

"I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate."

"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

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

"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."

"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."

"No one has developed active tuberculosis."

"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."

"Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel."